voluntas
Ido
Latin
Etymology
Derived from the old present participle stem *welont- + -(t)ās. Confer with volēns (“willing”) and post-classical volentia (“will”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /woˈlun.taːs/, [wɔˈɫʊn.taːs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voˈlun.tas/
Noun
voluntās f (genitive voluntātis); third declension
- will, free will, choice
- 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
- Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
- If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.
- Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
- desire, inclination
- disposition towards (something or someone)
- favor, affection
- last will, testament
- goal, object, purpose, intention
- signification, import
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | voluntās | voluntātēs |
Genitive | voluntātis | voluntātum |
Dative | voluntātī | voluntātibus |
Accusative | voluntātem | voluntātēs |
Ablative | voluntāte | voluntātibus |
Vocative | voluntās | voluntātēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Albanian: vullnet
- Basque: borondate
- Dalmatian: voluntuot
- English: volunty
- Friulian: volontât
- Italian: voluntà, volontà
- Ladin: veluntad, ulentà
- Ligurian: voentæ, vuluntà
References
- voluntas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- voluntas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- voluntas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- voluntas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- when life runs smoothly: in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem fluentibus
- to find favour with some one; to get into their good graces: benevolentiam, favorem, voluntatem alicuius sibi conciliare or colligere (ex aliqua re)
- to look favourably upon; to support: propenso animo, studio esse or propensa voluntate esse in aliquem (opp. averso animo esse ab aliquo)
- to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: se conformare, se accommodare ad alicuius voluntatem
- to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: alicuius voluntati morem gerere
- to become estranged, alienated from some one: voluntatemor animum alicuius a se abalienare, aliquem a se abalienare or alienare
- to satisfy a person's wishes: voluntati alicuius satisfacere, obsequi
- a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
- the last wishes of a deceased person: alicuius mortui voluntas (suprema)
- the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis
- unpopularity: offensa populi voluntas
- when life runs smoothly: in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem fluentibus
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195083458
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1137
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