volubile

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Adjective

volubile (comparative more volubile, superlative most volubile)

  1. (chiefly botany) Turning or whirling; winding.
    • John Milton
      […] or this less volubile 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for volubile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Adjective

volubile (plural volubiles)

  1. inconstant, changeable, variable

Further reading

Interlingua

Adjective

volubile (comparative plus volubile, superlative le plus volubile)

  1. voluble

Italian

Etymology

From Latin volūbilis (“turning”).

Adjective

volubile (masculine and feminine plural volubili)

  1. inconstant, changeable, variable
  2. shifty
  3. fickle, moody

Latin

Adjective

volūbile

  1. nominative neuter singular of volūbilis
  2. accusative neuter singular of volūbilis
  3. vocative neuter singular of volūbilis

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin volūbilis.

Adjective

volubile m or f (plural volubiles)

  1. inconstant, variable; changeable
  2. movable; moving

Descendants

References
  • volubile on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
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