volunteer
English
/vɑl.ənˈtɪɹ/, /vɒl.ənˈtɪə/
noun
Definitions
- One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.
- (military) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
- (legal) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
- (botany) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see in Wikipedia.
- A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire derived from Latin voluntārius (voluntary, volunteer, willing, of free will) suffix from English voluntary root from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (choose, wish, want, desire).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*welh₁-
Gloss
choose, wish, want, desire
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
欲
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- benevolence English
- involuntary English
- malevolence English
- nonvoluntary English
- semivoluntary English
- tourism English
- unvoluntary English
- vollie English
- voluntarily English
- voluntariness English
- voluntarism English
- voluntarist English
- voluntaristic English
- voluntary English
- voluntaryist English
- volunteerism English
- volunteeristic English
- voluntourism English
- voluptuous English
- benevolens Latin
- benevolēns Latin
- malevolens Latin
- malevolentem, malevolēns Latin
- voluntarius Latin
- voluntārius Latin
- voluntāriē Latin
- voluntās Latin
- voluntātem Latin
- volō Latin
- volontario Italian
- volontaire French
- voluptuaire French
- voluntario Spanish, Castilian
- ἔλδομαι Ancient Greek
- *-tis Proto-Indo-European
- *welh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *welh₁p- Proto-Indo-European
- *werh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *wal- Proto-Germanic
- *waljaną Proto-Germanic
- *walą Proto-Germanic
- *wela Proto-Germanic
- *wiljaną Proto-Germanic
- *wiljô Proto-Germanic
- ボランティア Japanese
- वर्णमाला Sanskrit
- *voluntarie Middle English
- *velěti Proto-Slavic
- *velě̀ti Proto-Slavic
- *voľa Proto-Slavic
- volontaire Old French
- voluntaire Old French
- voluntari Catalan, Valencian
- बलमटेर Hindi
- वर्णांध Hindi
- bolunter Cebuano
- bolunterismo Cebuano
- bolunturismo Cebuano
- wolde Middle Dutch
- voluntar Ido
- boluntaryo Tagalog
- voluntaire Middle French
- *wāletiyā Proto-Celtic
- *Hwáriṣṭʰas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *wr̥náwti Proto-Indo-Iranian
- volontari Occitan
- *welō Proto-Italic
- *gail Frankish
- voluntia Tok Pisin
- *wáljāˀ Proto-Balto-Slavic
- véuggia Ligurian
- *warH-, *wār- Proto-Iranian