volubile

• volubilate

From Middle French volubile, from Latin volūbilis (“rolling”), from volvō (“I roll”). Doublet of voluble.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɒljʊbaɪl/

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volubile (comparative more volubile, superlative most volubile)

1. (chiefly botany) Turning or whirling; winding.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     […] or this less volubil earth,
     By shorter flight to th' east,
     had left him there
     Arraying with reflected purple and gold
     The clouds that on his western throne attend.

Learned borrowing from Latin volūbilis.

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.ly.bil/

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volubile (plural volubiles)

1. talkative (talking a great deal with ease, and quickly changing subjects)

   Near-synonyms: disert, loquace, bavard, prolixe

2. inconstant, changeable, variable

• volubilement
• volubilité

• “volubile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

volubile (comparative plus volubile, superlative le plus volubile)

1. voluble

Probably borrowed from Latin volūbilis (“turning”).

volubile (plural volubili)

1. inconstant, changeable, variable
2. shifty
3. fickle, moody

• volubilità
• volubilmente

volūbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of volūbilis

Borrowed from Latin volūbilis.

volubile m or f (plural volubiles)

1. inconstant, variable; changeable
2. movable; moving

• French: volubile

• volubile on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)