volutas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →voluto, volutare, volutavi, volutatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
roll, wallow, turn over in one's mind, think or talk over;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →volvo, volvere, volvi, volutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
roll, cause to roll; travel in circle/circuit; bring around/about; revolve;; envelop, wrap up; unroll (scroll); recite, reel off; turn over (in mind);; roll along/forward; (PASS) move sinuously (snake); grovel, roll on ground;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...erit hic, nuntiabo. sed quid est, Palaestrio, quod volutas tute tecum in corde? Pal. Paulisper tace..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...mors accumulabat. multa siti prostrata viam per proque voluta corpora silanos ad aquarum strata iacebant interclusa anima nimia..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ferre non possum. Haec in animo voluta, quae saepe audisti, saepe dixisti; sed an vere audieris, an vere..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...genitoris amore, ut vidit, Lausus, lacrimaeque per ora volutae— hic mortis durae casum tuaque optima facta..."
