From earliervoltus (the standard spelling into the 1st centuryCE) with regular /ol → ul/ before consonants, fromProto-Italic*woltus, fromProto-Indo-European*wel-(“to see”), probably e-grade with regular /el → ol/.
Cognate toWelshgweld,Tocharian Byel-(“to examine”) andGothic𐍅𐌿𐌻𐌸𐌿𐍃(wulþus,“glory”) (from zero-grade).[1]
vultus m (genitivevultūs);fourth declension
- afacialexpression,look,countenance
- Synonym:ōs
405CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs 27:23:
- dīligenter agnōscevultum pecoris tuī tuōsque gregēs cōnsīderā
- Translation by Douay-Rheims Bible
- Be diligent to know thecountenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks
- theexpressionappropriate to a type ofperson orsituation; avisage,mien,demeanor
- (anatomy, often in theplural) thefront of thehead,face
- Synonyms:frōns,ōs
- the face asinvolved inlooking; theview,gaze
- Synonym:aspectus
- thedistinctive appearance,looks,features
- Synonym:speciēs
- (of beings and things) theoutward appearance,face,aspect
8CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses1.5–7:
- Ante mare et terrās et quod tegit omnia caelum
ūnus erat tōtō nātūraevultus in orbe,
quem dīxēre chaos: […] - Before the sea and the lands and the sky that covers over all things,
there was oneface of nature in the whole world,
which they called chaos: […]
Fourth-declension noun.
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008),Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,pages688-9
- “vultus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "vultus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “vultus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page1698.
- vultus inGeorges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918),Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column3565
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- his eyes are always fixed on some one's face:oculi in vultu alicuius habitant
- to dissemble, disguise one's feelings:vultum fingere
- a feigned expression:vultus ficti simulatique
- to put on a stern air:vultum componere ad severitatem
- to keep one's countenance, remain impassive:vultum non mutare
