volumen

From Latin volūmen.

• IPA^(key): /boˈlumen/
• Syllabification: vo‧lu‧men
• Rhymes: -umen

volumen m

1. volume

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volumen

1. plural of volume

For *volvimen, *volvumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix); hence literally "a thing that is rolled".

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɔˈɫuː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [voˈluː.men]

volūmen n (genitive volūminis); third declension

1. book, volume, roll, scroll
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.2:

     Illud autem vidē nē ista lēctiō auctōrum multōrum et omnīs generīs volūminum habeat aliquid vagum et īnstabile.

     But see to it that this reading of many authors and all kinds of books does not have something aimless and unstable [in it].

2. revolution, turn
3. (poetic) fold, coil, roll, whirl, band
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.207–208:

     “[...] pars cētera pontum
     pōne legit, sinuatque immēnsa volūmine terga.”

     “[Describing the two sea serpents:] the other part [of their bodies] skims the sea behind [them], and bends in a coil [their] immense backs.” – Aeneas

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• volūminōsus

• volvō
• volūcra

• “volumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “volumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "volumen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• volumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to open a book: volumen explicare
    
• “volumen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

volúmen m inan (Cyrillic spelling волу́мен)

1. volume (measure of space)

• (Croatian) obújam
• (Bosnian, Serbian) zapremina

• volúmen (obsolete)

From Latin volūmen.

• IPA^(key): /boˈlumen/ [boˈlu.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: vo‧lu‧men

volumen m (plural volúmenes)

1. volume (a three-dimensional measure of space)
2. volume (a bound book)
3. volume (strength of sound)

• “volumen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024