volvere

The name Volvo means 'I roll' in Latin and is derived from the Latin word 'volvere' which means 'to roll'.

rediff.com 2010

Volvo, which takes its name from the Latin verb "volvere", meaning "to roll", was founded in Gothenburg in 1927, some 20 years earlier than rival Saab.

British Blogs 2009

There are occurrences of the word volume and volumi which are from the Lat. volvere, at Pd XXIII 112; XXVI 119; XXVIII 14.

Archive 2008-08-01 Miglior acque 2008

There are occurrences of the word volume and volumi which are from the Lat. volvere, at Pd XXIII 112; XXVI 119; XXVIII 14.

Tom Phillips, Dante's Inferno Miglior acque 2008

Sed ego comperior Bocchum magis Punica fide [612] quam ob ea, quae praedicabat, simul Romanos et Numidam spe pacis attinuisse multumque cum animo suo volvere solitum, Jugurtham Romanis an illi Sullam traderet; libidinem [613] adversum nos, metum pro nobis suasisse.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

Rotuli, i.e. rolls — in which a long narrow strip of papyrus or parchment, written on one side, was wound like a blind about its staff — formed the earliest kind of "volume" (volumen from volvere, to roll up) of which we have knowledge.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

This form of manuscript was later termed by the Romans rolles, to roll round, or more commonly volvere, to roll over.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

Sed ego conperior Bocchum magis Punica fide quam ob ea, quae praedicabat, simul Romanos et Numidam spe pacis attinuisse, multumque cum animo suo volvere solitum, Jugurtham Romanis an illi Sullam traderet; lubidinem advorsum nos, metum pro nobis suasisse.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

Progeniem fed enim Trojano a fanguine duci Audierat, Tyjias olim quae verteret arces j Hinc populum, late regem, belloque fuperbQnif Venturum excidio Libyae: fic volvere Parcas.

P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

Quarto terra die primum fe adtollere tandem Vifa; aperire procul montis, ac volvere fumum.

P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796