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volvere

volvere is a Latin form of volo, meaning “want, wish, be willing”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

It can also be a form of volvo, “roll, turn; turn over in the mind; (pass.) roll, revolve”. It is the 2nd person singular future passive indicative or 2nd person singular present passive imperative or 2nd person singular present passive indicative or present active infinitive.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 1.473: flammarumque globos liquefactaque volvere saxa!

Vergil, Aeneid 7.238: et petiere sibi et voluere adiungere gentes;

Plautus, Pseudolus 4.1.905: Si umquám quemquam di immórtales voluére esse auxilio ádiutum,

All forms of volo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.