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volvitur

volvitur is a Latin form of volvo, meaning “roll, turn; turn over in the mind; (pass.) roll, revolve”. It is the 3rd person singular present passive indicative.

Found 57 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.102: E quibus sol, cuius magnitudine multis partibus terra superatur, circum eam ipsam volvitur, isque oriens et occidens diem noctemque conficit et modo accedens tum autem recedens binas in singulis annis …

Vergil, Aeneid 9.414: Volvitur ille vomens calidum de pectore flumen

Silius Italicus, Punica 2.589: uoluitur et muris propere delabitur altis

All forms of volvo (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.