volvo, volvere, volui, volutus, to roll, to turn over in the mind, to ponder

Aeneid 1.22, 'sic volvere Parcas' (thus rolled the Fates). cf. many Latin compounds (advolvo, circumvolvo, convolvo, devolvo, evolvo, involvo, obvolvo, pervolvo, provolvo, revolvo, subvolvo, supervolvo) and voluto (to roll), volubilis (rolling, whirling), rapid, volumen (a roll, volume). Eng. voluble, marked by a ready flow of speech, fluent. T. Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness: We wandered through the wide, dusty streets, and along the narrow sidewalks. It was a hot, still evening; the smell of the tropics was on the heavy December air. Through the open doors and windows we caught dim glimpses of the half-clad inmates of the poorer houses; women and young girls sat outside their thresholds in the moonlight. All whom we met were most friendly: the captain of the little Brazilian garrison; the intendente, a local trader; another trader and ranchman, a Uruguayan, who had just received his newspaper containing my speech in Montevideo, and who, as I gathered from what I understood of his rather voluble Spanish, was much impressed by my views on democracy, honesty, liberty, and order (rather well-worn topics); and a Catalan who spoke French, and who was accompanied by his pretty daughter, a dear little girl of eight or ten, who said with much pride that she spoke three languages—Brazilian, Spanish, and Catalan! Her father expressed strongly his desire for a church and for a school in the little city.