Etymology

voluta

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Today it means: Any of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera. Full definition →

Latin volūta
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromvolūta“a spiral scroll”
  2. English todayvoluta

Borrowed from Latin volūta (“a spiral scroll”). See volute.

Words from the same roots

Latinvolūta all →

vaultvolute

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