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語源

From Middle French volubile, from Latin volūbilis (“rolling”), from volvō (“to roll”). Doublet of voluble.

発音

• IPA: /ˈvɒljʊbaɪl/

形容詞

volubile (comparative more volubile, superlative most volubile)

1. (archaic, chiefly botany) Turning or whirling; winding.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     […] or this less volubil earth,
     By shorter flight to th' east,
     had left him there
     Arraying with reflected purple and gold
     The clouds that on his western throne attend.

参照

• “volubile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.