English Online Dictionary. What means volvo? What does volvo mean?
Galician
Verb
volvo
- first-person singular present indicative of volver
Italian
Verb
volvo
- first-person singular present indicative of volvere
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wolwō, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, round”).
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.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ol.u̯oː/, [ˈu̯ɔɫ̪u̯oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvol.vo/, [ˈvɔlvo]
Verb
volvō (present infinitive volvere, perfect active volvī, supine volūtum); third conjugation
- to roll, tumble
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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.
Portuguese
Verb
volvo
- first-person singular present indicative of volver