volutatio Latin · revision 33475

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la volvō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''volūtātiō''' ''f'' (genitive volūtātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|volūtō|-tiō|t1=to roll about]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) and [[m|la|volūtō]] is a frequentative of [[m|la|volvō|t=to roll]].^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|volvō]] to [[itc-pro|*welu-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*uel-u-|t=to wind]], and compares [[grc|εἰλύω|tr=eilúō|t=to wind round]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the speech against Piso describes someone pursuing something ''tōtīs volūtātiōnibus corporis'', with all the rolling movements of the body.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means a rolling about: of people,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) of pigs and other animals wallowing in mud (Pliny the Elder),^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) of athletes in the dust (Tertullian),^(Lewis & Short 1879) and of things, as of waves in Seneca or of a stone in Palladius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Seneca the Elder and Petronius use it in a sexual sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From the Augustan age on it was used figuratively of a restless mind and of the instability of human affairs, both in Seneca.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of bodily movements.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of waves, of a restless mind and of instability.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it in a sexual sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of pigs wallowing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it of athletes in the dust.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|rolling]] about; of animals, [[m|en|wallowing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A rolling movement of things.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|restlessness|alt=Restlessness]] of the mind; [[m|en|turmoil]] or instability of affairs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[volūtō]]

+ * [[volvō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}