volumen Latin · revision 4215

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la volvō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [wɔˈɫuː.mɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [voˈluː.men]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''volūmen''' ''n'' (genitive volūminis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|volvo|-men|t1=to roll, turn]], literally a thing that is rolled up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary takes it back to [[itc-pro|*welūmən]], from [[ine-pro|*wéluHmn̥]], and compares [[grc|εἴλυμα|tr=eíluma|t=wrapper]] and [[xcl|գելումն|tr=gelumn|t=twist]].^(Wiktionary) Isidore of Seville explained the book's name from rolling, as in the rolls of the Hebrew Law and Prophets.^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates its first use to Plautus, c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Varro and Cicero use it of a papyrus roll, Cicero of the crowd of new books.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense was a roll of papyrus forming a book or part of one, and so a book or a volume.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call this the predominant meaning, beside [[codex]] and [[liber]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) To unroll it to read was ''volūmen explicāre''.^(Gaffiot 2016) In poetry it was any coil, fold or whirl: Virgil uses it of a horse bending its legs in turn.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ In medieval Latin it was also a charter or deed and a letter.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010) British writers used it of a book of a given format and of a part of a text.^(DMLBS) English ''volume'' is recorded in the late 14th century as a bound book.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the word.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of the crowd of new books.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of coils.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville explains it from rolling.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|volume]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A roll of papyrus; a book, a [[m|en|volume]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(poetic)'' A coil, fold, whirl, twist.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A revolution, turn.^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A charter, deed; a letter.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[volūminōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[volvō]]

+ * [[volūcra]]

+ * [[en|volume]]

+ * [[en|revolve]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}