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volvuntur

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

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.17: … , qui reliquos omnes complectitur, summus ipse deus arcens et continens ceteros; in quo sunt infixi illi, qui volvuntur, stellarum cursus sempiterni; cui subiecti sunt septem, qui versantur retro contrario motu atque caelum; ex q …

Silius Italicus, Punica 3.698: conlisis trabibus uoluuntur murmura luco,

Jerome, Epistolae 60.13: … m se erigens salutare venientes: intellegeres illum non emori, sed migrare, et mutare amicos, non relinquere. Volvuntur per ora lacrimae et obfirmato animo non queo dolorem dissimulare, quem patior. Quis crederet in tali illum te …

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.