volucer
Meaning
- three terminationwinged
29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III omne adeo genvs in terris hominvmqve ferarvmqve et genvs æqvorevm pecvdes pictæqve volvcres in fvrias ignemqve rvvnt So far does every species on earth of man and beast, whether the aquatic species, livestock, or painted-winged, collapse into the frenzies and the fire [of sex].
‘mella meum mūnus: volucrēs ego mella datūrās
“Honeys [are also] my duty: [It is] I [who] call to the violet, and the clover, and the hoary thyme the winged [ones who are] about to give honeys.” (The poetic voice of Flora (mythology) is referring to “bees” as being “winged.” Translating “mella” as nominative and accusative plural, since the varied flowers result in differently colored and flavored honeys.)8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.271–272 - three terminationflying; able to fly
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
quī volāre potest.celeriter ut avisquī volatDeclension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | volucer volucris | volucris volucer | volucre |
| genitive | volucris | volucris | volucris |
| dative | volucrī | volucrī | volucrī |
| accusative | volucrem | volucrem | volucre |
| ablative | volucrī | volucrī | volucrī |
| vocative | volucer volucris | volucris volucer | volucre |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | volucrēs | volucrēs | volucria |
| genitive | volucrium volucrum | volucrium volucrum | volucrium |
| dative | volucribus | volucribus | volucribus |
| accusative | volucrīs volucrēs | volucrīs volucrēs | volucria |
| ablative | volucribus | volucribus | volucribus |
| vocative | volucrēs | volucrēs | volucria |
bestiae, Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 38; id. Lael. 21, 81: angues, id. N. D. 1, 36, 101: dracones, Ov. M. 7, 218: Cupido, id. ib. 9, 482: natus, i. e. Cupid, id. ib. 5, 364: deus, i. e. Mercury, Stat. Th. 2, 55; cf. pes (Mercurii), Ov. F. 5, 88; and: o nuntium volucrem! Cic. Quint. 25, 80.—teneros volucres, Cic. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64), a bird, a flying creature, Lucr. 1, 12; 2, 145; 2, 344; Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 23; id. Ac. 2, 25, 81: marinae, Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 11; Ov. A. A. 3, 35; id. H. 10, 123: Junonis, i. e. the peacock, id. M. 15, 385; cf. Junonia, id. Med. Fac. 33; of the cock: volucres cecinere diem, Coripp. 1, 199; cf. Sil. 14, 22; the eagle, Luc. 6, 129: obscenae, Verg. A. 3, 241: Tityi volucres, vultures, Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 31; Hor. S. 1, 8, 6; of the sirens, Stat. S. 5, 3, 87; Quint. 10, 3, 24; 12, 11, 13; Suet. Aug. 13: pictae, Verg. A. 4, 525; Ov. M. 1, 308: volucris parvula, the fly, Phaedr. 5, 3, 3.—syn. velox): lumen, Lucr. 6, 173; cf.: ritu flammarum, id. 1, 1102: fumi, Verg. G. 2, 217: aurae, id. A. 11, 795; Ov. M. 13, 807: nebulae, id. ib. 1, 602: procellae, id. Am. 2, 11, 33: sagitta, Verg. A. 5, 242; Ov. M. 9, 102; called also ferrum, id. Tr. 3, 10, 64: harundo, Verg. A. 5, 544: equi, Ov. M. 2, 153; 2, 234; 4, 245: currus, Hor. C. 1, 34, 8: volucri freta classe pererrat, Ov. M. 7, 460: jam volucrem sequor Te per gramina Martii Campi, speeding, running, Hor. C. 4, 1, 38 et saep.—nihil est tam volucre quam maledictum, Cic. Planc. 23, 57: aliud genus (dicendi) est ... verbis volucre atque incitatum, id. Brut. 95, 325: volucri spe et cogitatione rapiuntur a domo longius, id. Rep. 2, 4, 7: somnus, Verg. A. 2, 794: fatum, Hor. C. 2, 17, 24.—o volucrem fortunam, Cic. Sull. 32, 91: dies, Hor. C. 3, 28, 6; 4, 13, 16: fama, Ov. H. 17, 207; Petr. 123: gaudium, Tac. Or. 9.—Adv.: vŏlŭcrĭter, swiftly, rapidly (post-class.): congregati, Amm. 17, 1, 12: perurgebat nocentes innocentesque, id. 29, 1, 18.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From volō, volāre (“to fly”). The masculine nominative singular form is derived by syncope from pre-Latin *wolukris, which probably developed by dissimilation from earlier *woluklis or *weluklis, with a suffix ultimately derived from pre-Proto-Italic *-tlis, *-tl-, a variant of the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr (suffix forming agent nouns), related to Latin -tor. Compare alacer and alacris. However, De Vaan regards the origin of the *-kris ending as uncertain. Although the stem of the verb volō (“to fly”) is volā-, this adjective is built on a stem volu- with a short /u/, which De Vaan considers unexplained. Sen argues that the stem *welu- was taken from volucra (“larva of a moth that infests vines”), a derivative of volvō (“to (cause to) roll”), based on semantic and formal similarity. There is no consensus on the ultimate etymology of volō (“to fly”), but one hypothesis is that it comes from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw”); assuming this initial *gʷ- is correct, Weiss 2009 reconstructs an earlier stage as *gʷolu-tlis, comparing it to Sanskrit गरुड (garuḍá) (which Weiss derives from earlier *garutráḥ), and Schrijver compares it to Sanskrit गरुत्मान् (garutmān).