voler

From Vulgar Latin volēre, regularized from Latin velle.

voler

1. to want

Inherited from Vulgar Latin volēre, regularized from Latin velle.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [buˈlɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [voˈlə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [voˈleɾ]

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voler (first-person singular present vull, first-person singular preterite volguí, past participle volgut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to want
2. (transitive) to merit
3. (transitive) to love, to esteem

   Synonyms: estimar, amar

   Et vull ― I love you

voler m (plural volers)

1. willingness
2. desire

• “voler”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “voler”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “voler” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “voler” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French voler, from Latin volāre. Displaced Old French rober (unrelated to Modern French rober (“to wrap a cigar in a sheet of tobacco”)).

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.le/

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voler

1. (intransitive) to fly through the air

   ne pas voler haut ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   voler en éclats ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   voler de ses propres ailes ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (falconry, transitive) to pursue flying
3. (intransitive) to scarper, flee
4. (transitive) to steal, rob

   donner c'est donner, reprendre c'est voler ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   maquillé comme une voiture volée ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   voler la vedette ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   qui vole un œuf vole un bœuf ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Qui a volé mon pantalon ? ― Who stole my pants?

• “voler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• lover

From Italian volere, French vouloir.

voler

1. to want

• IPA^(key): /voˈler/
• Rhymes: -er
• Hyphenation: vo‧lér

voler (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of volere

voler

1. alternative form of volei

From French voleur.

• IPA^(key): /volɛː/

voler

1. thief; robber.

   Synonym: chor

From Old French, from Latin volō, volāre (“fly”).

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voler

1. (Jersey) to steal
2. (Jersey) to fly
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], pages 542-43:

     Un mouisson dans la main vaut mûx que daeux qui volent.

     A bird in the hand is better than two who fly.

From Old Occitan voler, from Vulgar Latin volēre, regularized from Latin velle.

• IPA^(key): /buˈle/
• (Niçard) IPA^(key): [vu.ˈle, vuʀ.ˈɡe]

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past_part=volgut
pres_1_sg=vòli

voler

1. to want

voler m (plural volers)

1. willingness
2. desire

From Vulgar Latin volēre, regularized from Latin velle.

voler

1. to want, to desire
   • c. 1130, Jaufre Rudel, canso:

     Mas so qu'ieu vuelh m'es atahis [...].

     But what I desire is denied to me.

• Occitan: voler

From Old French, from Latin volō, volāre.

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.ˈle/

voler

1. to fly