voluta

See also: Voluta

English

a voluta (Voluta musica) shell

Etymology

From Latin voluta (“a spiral scroll”). See volute.

Noun

voluta (plural volutas or volutae)

1. (zoology) Any of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.

See also

• voluta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• voluta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Czech

Etymology

Latin volvo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvoluta]
• Rhymes: -uta

Noun

voluta f

1. (architecture) volute

Declension

Declension of voluta (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	voluta	voluty
genitive	voluty	volut
dative	volutě	volutám
accusative	volutu	voluty
vocative	voluto	voluty
locative	volutě	volutách
instrumental	volutou	volutami

Related terms

Related terms

• devoluce
• devolutivní
• evoluce
• evolucionismus
• evolucionista
• evolucionistický
• involuce
• koevoluce
• kontrarevoluce
• kontrarevolucionář
• konvoluce
• revolta
• revoluce
• revolucionář
• revolver
• volt
• volta
• voluminózní

Further reading

• “voluta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “voluta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /voˈlu.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: vo‧lù‧ta

Etymology 1

Participle

voluta f sg

1. feminine singular of voluto

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin volūta, from the feminine of volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō.

Noun

voluta f (plural volute)

1. spiral, volute, curl
2. wreath

Related terms

• volta

Anagrams

• valuto, valutò

Latin

Etymology 1

Noun use of the feminine of volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō.

Noun

volūta f (genitive volūtae); first declension

1. a spiral scroll
2. a spiral decoration

Declension

volūta f (genitive volūtae); first declension

Descendants

• Catalan: volta
• → English: volute
• Old French: volte
  • → Middle English: vaute, vaut, vawt, vawte, voghte, volte, vout, voute, vowt, vowte, wate, waute, wawte, woute
    • English: vault
    • Scots: vowt
    • → Welsh: fowt
  • French: voûte, → volute (learned)
• Hungarian: bolt
• Italian: voluta, volta
• Occitan: vòlta, vouta
• Portuguese: abóbada, voluta
• Romanian: boltă, volută
• Sicilian: vota
• Spanish: voluta, bóveda

Etymology 2

Participle

volūta

1. inflection of volūtus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

volūtā

1. ablative feminine singular of volūtus

Descendants

• Catalan: volta
• Istriot: vuolta
• Italian: volta
  • → English: volta
  • → French: volte
    • → English: volte
• Spanish: vuelta
  • → Tagalog: buwelta

Etymology 3

Verb

volūtā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of volūtō

References

• “voluta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• voluta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin voluta.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /voˈlu.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /voˈlu.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /voˈlu.ta/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vuˈlu.tɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vuˈlu.tɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /buˈlu.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: vo‧lu‧ta

Noun

voluta f (plural volutas)

1. (architecture) volute

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin voluta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈluta/ [boˈlu.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: vo‧lu‧ta

Noun

voluta f (plural volutas)

1. wisp (of smoke)
2. (architecture) volute

Further reading

• “voluta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10