volvendis
Dictionary entries
- 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;
abl. pl. fut. pass. part.dat. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Praefatio
Aulus Gellius
"...polymathie noon ou didaskei, ipse quidem volvendis transeundisque multis admodum voluminibus per omnia semper negotiorum intervalla, in quibus..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...erat, dum res stetit Ilia regno,— triginta magnos volvendis mensibus orbis imperio explebit, regnumque ab sede Lavini transferet..."