volubile

• volubilate

From Middle French volubile, from Latin volūbilis (“rolling”), from volvō (“I roll”). Doublet of voluble.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɒljʊbaɪl/

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volubile (comparative more volubile, superlative most volubile)

1. (archaic, chiefly botany) Turning or whirling; winding.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     […] or this less volubil earth,
     By shorter flight to th' east,
     had left him there
     Arraying with reflected purple and gold
     The clouds that on his western throne attend.

• “volubile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Learned borrowing from Latin volūbilis.

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.ly.bil/

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volubile (plural volubiles)

1. talkative (talking a great deal with ease, and quickly changing subjects)

   Near-synonyms: disert, loquace, bavard, prolixe

2. inconstant, changeable, variable

• volubilement
• volubilité

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

volubile (comparative plus volubile, superlative le plus volubile)

1. voluble

Probably borrowed from Latin volūbilis (“turning”).

volubile m or f (plural volubili)

1. inconstant, changeable, variable
2. shifty
3. fickle, moody

• volubilità
• volubilmente

volūbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of volūbilis

Borrowed from Latin volūbilis.

volubile m or f (plural volubiles)

1. inconstant, variable; changeable
2. movable; moving

• French: volubile

• volubile on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)