voluntarius

Latin

Etymology

voluntas (will) +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation

Noun

voluntārius m (genitive voluntāriī or voluntārī); second declension

  1. volunteer

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

  1. voluntary, willing

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

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)