Etymology

voluble

vol·u·ble
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Today it means: Fluent or having a ready flow of speech. Full definition →

Middle French volubile ← Latin volūbilis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromvolūbilis“rolling”
  2. Middle French · derived fromvolubile
  3. English todayvoluble

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

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchvolubile all →

volubile

Latinvolūbilis all →

volubile

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.