英语词汇volume的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	volume
词源	volume. Early books consisted of parchment rolled on sticks, just as religious books sometimes are today. Thus the Latin vol- umen, “a coil or roll,” from the Latin, volvere, “to roll,” became the French and English volume, for “a book.”
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