volontaire
French
adj
Definitions
- voluntary, deliberate
- volunteer
- determined
- wilful
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French voluntaire inherited from Old French voluntaire borrowed from Latin voluntārius (voluntary, volunteer, willing, of free will).
Origin
Latin
voluntārius
Gloss
voluntary, volunteer, willing, of free will
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- involuntary English
- nonvoluntary English
- semivoluntary English
- unvoluntary English
- voluntarily English
- voluntariness English
- voluntarism English
- voluntarist English
- voluntaristic English
- voluntary English
- voluntaryist English
- volunteer English
- voluntarius Latin
- voluntārius Latin
- Volontär German
- volontario Italian
- voluntà Italian
- -eur French
- volontairement French
- volontariat French
- volontarisme French
- -ёр Russian
- волонтёр Russian
- voluntario Spanish, Castilian
- *welh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- wolontariat Polish
- *voluntarie Middle English
- volontaire Old French
- voluntaire Old French
- voluntari Catalan, Valencian
- voluntar Ido
- boluntaryo Tagalog
- voluntaire Middle French
- volontari Occitan