volō, velle, voluī

Definitions for velle

Wheelock's Latin

Verb

1
to wish, want, be willing, will
English derivatives:
volition voluntary involuntary volunteer volitive voluptuous benevolent malevolent nolens volens

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Verb

1
(w. neut. pron., etc.) To want, wish for (something). (b) quid uis? (in inquiring after a person's errand, etc.) what do you want? what is it? (c) si quid uis (parenth.), if you like.
2
To desire to have, want (a particular thing or person).
3
To want to speak with, require the presence, attention, etc., of (a person); (w. internal acc.) to want (a person for something). (b) num-quid me uis? (as a formula used in leavetaking) is there anything you want of me?
4
(w. inf.) To wish, have a desire (to). (b) (in past tenses, implying non-occurence of the act wished); uolui, etc., dicere, I, etc., meant to say.
5
(in other uses w. inf.): (a) to be willing, prepared (to). (b) to be disposed, care (to). (c) to take voluntary action (to). (d) to be about (to), be on the point (of).

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Sentences with velle

Latin to English

Tyrannus cīvēs suōs ita male opprimēbat ut semper līberī esse vellent.Compare The tyrant used to oppress his citizens so badly that they always wished to be free.

Qui vult dare parva nōn dēbet magna rogāre.Compare He who wishes to give little shouldn't ask for much.

Cum de supplicio cuiusdam capite damnati ut ex more subsriberet admoneretur: "Quam vellem," inquit, "nescire litteras." (Nero,X, 2)Compare When he [Nero] was asked to sign the usual warrant for a man's execution, he said, "How I wish I had never learned to write!"

Nōs ā scientiā prohibēre vōlent virī līberī; sed tyrannī maximē sīc volunt.Compare Free men will not wish to keep us from knowledge; but tyrants especially so wish.

Iterum tribunus plebs fio volo.Compare He wished to be made tribune of the people a second time.

Nemo vos, qui in hic concilium advoco, quisquam dico volo aut audeo.Compare No one of you, who have been summoned to this assembly, wishes or dares to say anything.

Nam qui volo, et credo libenter.Compare For we readily believe what we wish.

Quod si in hoc erro, qui animos hominum immortalis esse credam, libenter erro nec mihi hunc errorem, quo delector, dum vivo, extorqueri volo.Compare If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which give me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Conjugation table for velle

Cactus2000

ACTIVE
Indicative present	Indicative imperfect
volō vīs vult volumus vultis volunt	volēbam volēbās volēbat volēbāmus volēbātis volēbant
Indicative perfect	Indicative pluperfect
voluī voluistī voluit voluimus voluistis voluērunt / voluēre	volueram voluerās voluerat voluerāmus voluerātis voluerant
Indicative future	Indicative future perfect
volam volēs volet volēmus volētis volent	voluerō volueris voluerit voluerimus volueritis voluerint
Subjunctive present	Subjunctive imperfect
velim velīs velit velīmus velītis velint	vellem vellēs vellet vellēmus vellētis vellent
Subjunctive perfect	Subjunctive pluperfect
voluerim volueris voluerit voluerimus volueritis voluerint	voluissem voluissēs voluisset voluissēmus voluissētis voluissent
Infinitive present velle Infinitive perfect voluisse Infinitive future -	Imperative present - - Imperative future - - - -

	PARTICIPLE
	Participle present active
	volens	volentēs
	volens	volentēs
	volens	volentēs
	volens	volentēs
	volens	volentēs
	Participle future active
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	Participle perfect passive
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	Gerundive
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	-	-
	Gerund	Supine
	-	-
	-	-
	-
	-
	-

	PARTICIPLE
	Participle present active
Nom.	volens	volentēs
Gen.	volentis	volentium
Dat.	volentī	volentibus
Acc.	volentem	volentēs
Abl.	volente	volentibus
	Participle future active
Nom.	-	-
Gen.	-	-
Dat.	-	-
Acc.	-	-
Abl.	-	-
	Participle perfect passive
Nom.	-	-
Gen.	-	-
Dat.	-	-
Acc.	-	-
Abl.	-	-
	Gerundive
Nom.	-	-
Gen.	-	-
Dat.	-	-
Acc.	-	-
Abl.	-	-
	Gerund	Supine
Nom.	-	-
Gen.	-	-
Dat.	-
Acc.	-
Abl.	-

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 223.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 2098.
Word frequencies
Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 119.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "volō, velle, voluī (v.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified August 14, 2023. Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/volo-velle-volui.