Etymograph

English

Voluptas

Voluptas comes from Latin voluptas ‘Voluptuous, Pleasure, Bliss’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *wolp-i ‘hope’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wolp-i‘hope’reconstructed
  2. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCE*volupereconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvolup‘pleasurably’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvoluptas‘Voluptuous, Pleasure, Bliss’
  5. EnglishtodayVoluptas

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wolp-i‘hope’reconstructed
  2. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCE*volupereconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvolup‘pleasurably’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvoluptas‘Voluptuous, Pleasure, Bliss’
  5. EnglishtodayVoluptas

Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *wolp-i

Today it means

name The Roman goddess of sensual pleasures. She is the daughter of Eros/Cupid and Psyche, and the grandaughter of Aphrodite/Venus and Ares/Mars. She is the Roman counterpart of Hedone.

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