How to Say "Will" in Latin - How To Say Guide

voluntas

[wɔˈɫʊn.taːs]

In Latin, the word for 'will' is voluntas.

The term voluntas is used to indicate future action (verb).

Meaning: indicating future action (verb)

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The Latin word for 'will' in formal or legal contexts is testamentum.

In many Latin philosophical texts, 'will' was not viewed as a separate faculty from 'reason', but rather as the movement of reason toward an object.
While voluntas describes the act of willing, the word testamentum shares a root with 'testify', as a legal will was originally a witnessed testimony.
The word voluntas is the root of the English word 'volunteer', describing someone who acts according to their own 'will'.

Voluntas pro facto reputatur.
The will is seen as a thing done.
This sentence shows how voluntas is viewed as an action performed.
Tatoeba #7044118 by iart61, translation #8422661 by Vibius_Marcus
Fiat voluntas tua sicut in caelo et in terra.
May your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
This sentence uses voluntas within a prayer-like context regarding a person's will.
Tatoeba #1270542 by pjer, translation #2158389 by MethodGT
Rursum Isaac ad filium suum: "Quomodo, inquit, tam cito invenire potuisti, fili mi?" Qui respondit: “Voluntas Domini Dei tui fuit, ut occurreret mihi”.
And Isaac said to his son: How couldst thou find it so quickly, my son? He answered: It was the will of God, that what I sought came quickly in my way.
This sentence illustrates the use of voluntas when describing the divine will of God.
Tatoeba #7808197 by carlosalberto, translation #7867947 by carlosalberto
Testamentum suum in praesentia testium firmavit.
He/she ratified his/her will in the presence of witnesses.
Volo tibi aliquid dicere.
I wish to tell you something.
Si vis, veni.
If you want, come.
Cupio te adiuvare.
I will that you help me.
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Julia and Quintus are discussing their plans for the journey.

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