voluntarius
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɔ.ɫʊnˈtaː.ri.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vo.lun̪ˈt̪aː.ri.us]
Noun
voluntārius m (genitive voluntāriī or voluntārī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | voluntārius | voluntāriī |
| genitive | voluntāriī voluntārī1 |
voluntāriōrum |
| dative | voluntāriō | voluntāriīs |
| accusative | voluntārium | voluntāriōs |
| ablative | voluntāriō | voluntāriīs |
| vocative | voluntārie | voluntāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Adjective
voluntārius (feminine voluntāria, neuter voluntārium); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | voluntārius | voluntāria | voluntārium | voluntāriī | voluntāriae | voluntāria | |
| genitive | voluntāriī | voluntāriae | voluntāriī | voluntāriōrum | voluntāriārum | voluntāriōrum | |
| dative | voluntāriō | voluntāriae | voluntāriō | voluntāriīs | |||
| accusative | voluntārium | voluntāriam | voluntārium | voluntāriōs | voluntāriās | voluntāria | |
| ablative | voluntāriō | voluntāriā | voluntāriō | voluntāriīs | |||
| vocative | voluntārie | voluntāria | voluntārium | voluntāriī | voluntāriae | voluntāria | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: voluntari
- French: volontaire, volontiers
- Galician: voluntario
- Italian: volontario
- Occitan: volontari
- Portuguese: voluntário
- Romanian: voluntar
- Spanish: voluntario
- → Albanian: vullnetar
References
- “voluntarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “voluntarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "voluntarius", 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)
- voluntarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori
- the volunteers: evocati, voluntarii (B. G. 5. 56)
- to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori