Where does “volume” come from?
Volume comes from Old French volume, from Latin volumen, a noun formed with the suffix -men from the verb root wel- meaning "to turn," with the nominal suffix -mn̥ in Proto-Indo-European.
volume (English): A three-dimensional measure of space that...
Definitions
- A three-dimensional measure of space that...
Ancestry of “volume”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | volume | — |
| 2 | Old French | volume | volume, specifically a collection of written... |
| 3 | Latin | volūmen | — |
| 4 | Latin | volvō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wēl- | — |
Words derived from “volume”