Where does “Volta” come from?

Volta comes from Portuguese volta, from Old Portuguese voltar meaning to turn, from Vulgar Latin voltare, from Latin volutare, from Latin volvo meaning to roll or turn, from Proto-Indo-European wel-.

Ancestry of “Volta”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Portuguese	volta	return; a bend in a course, line, pipe, etc;...
2	Old Portuguese	volta	turnaround; revolt
3	Old Portuguese	voltar	to turn around
4	Vulgar Latin	*volvitare	—
5	Latin	volvere	third-person plural perfect active indicative of...
6	Latin	volvo	I roll, tumble
7	Proto-Indo-European	welw-	hair, wool, grass, ear , forest; to turn, wind,...
8	Proto-Indo-European	wēlH-	—
9	Proto-Indo-European	welH-	to turn, to wind

Words derived from “Volta”

photovoltaic
voltaic
Voltaic
photovoltaics
Voltan
voltaism
thermophotovoltaic
photovoltaically
betavoltaic
photo-voltaic
thermovoltaic
betavoltaics
Upper Volta
agrivoltaic
nonphotovoltaic
Upper Voltan
voltagraphy

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