volvo

volvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volver

volvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volvere

From Proto-Italic *wolwō, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, round”).^[1]

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐλύω (elúō, “to roll around”), εἰλύω (eilúō, “to enfold”), εἴλω (eílō, “to roll up, pack close”), ἑλίσσω (helíssō, “to turn round, to roll”), ἕλιξ (hélix), Albanian valle (“circle dance”), Old Armenian գելում (gelum), Old English wielwan, wealwian (“to roll”). Compare Latin vulgus. More at wallow.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɔɫ.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔl.vo]

volvō (present infinitive volvere, perfect active volvī, supine volūtum); third conjugation

1. to roll, tumble
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.670–671:

     [...] flammaeque furentēs / culmina perque hominum volvantur perque deōrum.

     [...] and the flames are raging, rolling again and again through the roofs of men and gods.
     (In other words, razing homes and temples.)

• “volvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “volvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• volvo 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: librum evolvere, volvere
    

volvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volver