volumen

See also: Volumen and volúmen

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

volumen

  1. plural of volume

Latin

Etymology

For *volvimen, *volvumen, from volvō (roll, turn about) + -men (noun-forming suffix); hence literally "a thing that is rolled".

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯oˈluː.men/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪uːmɛn]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voˈlu.men/, [voˈluːmen]

Noun

volūmen n (genitive volūminis); third declension

  1. book, volume, roll, scroll
  2. revolution, turn
  3. (poetic) fold, coil, whirl

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative volūmen volūmina
Genitive volūminis volūminum
Dative volūminī volūminibus
Accusative volūmen volūmina
Ablative volūmine volūminibus
Vocative volūmen volūmina

Derived terms

  • volūminōsus

Descendants

References

  • volumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • volumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • volumen 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)
  • volumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to open a book: volumen explicare
  • volumen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

volúmen m (Cyrillic spelling волу́мен)

  1. volume (measure of space)

Declension

Synonyms


Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin volūmen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boˈlumen/ [boˈlu.mẽn]
  • Rhymes: -umen
  • Syllabification: vo‧lu‧men

Noun

volumen m (plural volúmenes)

  1. volume (a three-dimensional measure of space)
  2. volume (a bound book)
  3. volume (strength of sound)

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