volubile

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/ˈvɒljʊbaɪl/

adjective

Turning or whirling; winding.

OriginMiddle French volubile ← Latin volūbilis →
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Meanings

adjectivevolubile (comparative more volubile, superlative most volubile)

comparative more volubile · superlative most volubile · alternative volubilate

  1. archaicbiologyTurning or whirling; winding.

    […] or this less volubil earth, By shorter flight to th' east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend.

    1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinvolūbilis“rolling”
  2. Middle Frenchvolubile
  3. Englishvolubile

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

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