Etymology

-voltine

Today it means: Having a certain number of broods or generations in a year. Full definition →

French -voltin ← Italian volta
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromvolta“time, instance, occasion”
  2. French · borrowed from-voltin
  3. English today-voltine

From French -voltin, from Italian volta (“time, instance, occasion”) + -in.

Words from the same roots

Italianvolta all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.