Latin

Adjective

volūbilis m, f ‎(neuter volūbile); third declension

1. that turns itself around, turning, spinning, whirling, rolling, revolving
2. (figuratively, of speech) rapid, fluent, voluble
3. (figuratively, of fate) changeable, mutable

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: voluble, volubile
• French: volubile
• Italian: volubile
• Portuguese: volúvel
• Spanish: voluble

References

• volubilis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• volubilis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VOLUBILIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “volubilis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• volubilis in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• volubilis in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press