volatilis
Latin
Etymology
From volāt- (supine stem of volō (“to fly”)) + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɔˈɫaː.tɪ.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [voˈlaː.t̪i.lis]
Adjective
volātilis (neuter volātile); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | volātilis | volātile | volātilēs | volātilia | |
| genitive | volātilis | volātilium | |||
| dative | volātilī | volātilibus | |||
| accusative | volātilem | volātile | volātilēs volātilīs |
volātilia | |
| ablative | volātilī | volātilibus | |||
| vocative | volātilis | volātile | volātilēs | volātilia | |
Derived terms
- follis volātilis (New Latin)
- pila volātilis arēnōsa (New Latin)
Descendants
- From the neuter plural volatilia:
- French: volaille
- Occitan: volalha
- From merger with pulla:
- Occitan: polalha, poralha
- Piedmontese: polaja
- Borrowings:
References
- “volatilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “volatilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "volatilis", 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)
- volatilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.