volo

volo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of volar

From Latin volō (“I wish”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolo]
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• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: vol‧o

volo (accusative singular volon, plural voloj, accusative plural volojn)

1. volition
2. what one desires or wishes, a gift of peace, one's wish
3. a Latin shortcut for the word Volabesta

From volare (“to fly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.lo/

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• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: vó‧lo

volo m (plural voli)

1. flight (of a bird; trip in a plane)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

volo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volare

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯o.loː/, [ˈu̯ɔɫ̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.lo/, [ˈvɔːlo]

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From Proto-Italic *welō, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”). Cognate with Sanskrit वृणीते (vṛṇīte, “to choose, prefer”), Old English willan (“to will, wish, desire”). More at will.

volō (present infinitive velle, perfect active voluī); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no imperative

1. I wish, I please

   Tibi bene ex animō volō.

   I wish you well with all my heart.

   Hanc rem pūblicam salvam esse volumus.

   We wish this republic to be safe.

2. I want

   Quid vīs?

   What do you want?

   Nunc, (ego) edere volō.

   Now, I want to eat.

   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 618:

     Dō tibi operam, Aristophontēs, sī quid est quod mē velīs.

     I’m at your service, Aristophontes, if there’s anything you want of me.

3. I mean, I intend

   Et dixit ad socerum, "Quid est quod facere voluisti?

   And he said to his father-in-law: "What is it that thou didst mean to do?" (KJV Bible, Genesis 29:25)

   Quibus ad se accersitis rex ait: "Quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis ut pueros servaretis?"

   And the king called for them, and said: "What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?" (KJV Bible, Exodus 1:18)

4. I am willing, I consent
5. I am going to, I intend, I am about to, I am on the point of

While it does have third conjugation forms, this verb is irregular. In Romance, it was regularized into a second conjugation verb *voleō (present infinitive *volēre), apparently based on the present participle volēns (that is probably inherited, like iēns from Proto-Italic *jents, and also the model for the formation of the perfect voluī), just like most forms of possum were regularized to fit a second conjugation stem *potē-. Its present infinitive, velle, descends from the athematic infinitive form Proto-Italic *wel-zi (*-zi being the source of the usual infinitive ending -re as well). The second person singular present form vīs is suppletive and belongs to the root Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to strive after, pursue”); the original form appears to be preserved as the conjunction vel (from Proto-Italic *wel-s).

• Vulgar Latin: *voleō (see there for further descendants)

From Proto-Italic *gʷelāō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₁-éh₂-ye-ti (“to throw, raise the arm”), from *gʷelH- (“to throw”).[1]

volō (present infinitive volāre, perfect active volāvī, supine volātum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. to fly

   Verba volant, scrīpta manent.

   Words fly, writings remain.

• “volo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “volo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• volo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be favourably disposed towards: alicuius causa velle or cupere
    
  • convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: sic volo te tibi persuadere
    
  • he attained his object: id quod voluit consecutus est
    
  • he attained his object: ad id quod voluit pervenit
    
  • what is the meaning of this: quid hoc sibi vult?
    
  • to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion: ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • to wish to speak to some one: velle aliquem (Plaut. Capt. 5. 2. 24)
    
  • a word with you: paucis te volo
    
  • a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
    
  • (ambiguous) the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) vivid, lively imagination: ingenii vis or celeritas
    
  • (ambiguous) what do you mean to do: quid tibi vis?
    
  • (ambiguous) oratorical power: vis dicendi
    
  • (ambiguous) what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae est vis huius verbi?
    
  • (ambiguous) the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
    
  • (ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 687

• IPA^(key): /ˈvulʷ/

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (compare Malay bulu), from Proto-Austronesian *bulu.

volo

1. (anatomy) hair (the collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq (compare Malay buluh), from Proto-Austronesian *buluq.

volo

1. bamboo (wood)