Wolumenem

Wolumenem is the instrumental singular form of the Polish noun wolumen, which translates to volume in English. The word is used for several related but distinct senses, reflecting its broad meaning from physical capacity to textual divisions and data storage.

Wolumen has multiple meanings. In everyday language it denotes the amount of space that a container or body can hold, i.e., its physical volume. In publishing, wolumen refers to a single part of a multi‑volume work, similar to “volume” in English, as in “pierwszy wolumen serii.” In information technology, the term is used for a storage unit or partition on a computer system, commonly described as a disk volume.

The word is a native Polish noun borrowed from Latin volumen, via Old French volume, and has been integrated into Polish vocabulary with established meanings related to size, parts of a series, and storage units. It is declined as a masculine noun of the 2nd declension: nominative wolumen, genitive wolumenu, dative wolumenowi, accusative wolumen, instrumental wolumenem, locative wolumenie, vocative wolumenie. In plural forms, appropriate endings yield wolumeny, wolumenów, wolumenom, wolumeny, wolumenami, wolumenach. The instrumental singular form wolumenem is used when the noun functions as the instrument or means in a sentence, or in fixed expressions that require the instrumental case.

Usage notes: wolumenem typically appears in contexts discussing the size or capacity of objects, or when referring to a particular volume within a set of works, or to a digital storage volume. The term coexists with related words such as tom, volume, and wolumin, with regional or stylistic preferences influencing choice in publishing or IT contexts.