voluit

Voluit is a Latin verb form: the third-person singular perfect active indicative of velle, meaning to want or to wish. In English translation, it corresponds to “he wished” or “he willed.” It marks a completed act of wishing in past narrative or reported speech. The form derives from the perfect stem volu- and uses the standard perfect endings; thus voluī (I wished), voluistī (you wished), voluit (he wished), voluimus (we wished), voluistis (you all wished), voluērunt (they wished).

The broader verb velle is irregular in its principal parts, commonly given as volō, velle, voluī. The perfect tense forms (including voluit) are built on volu- with the customary endings for each person and number. In other tenses, the present active is volō (“I want”), the imperfect is volebam (“I was wishing”), and the future is volēbō (“I shall want” or “I will want”). The perfect passive and pluperfect forms follow the same stem with appropriate endings (e.g., voluerat, voluerunt).

Usage in Latin is to express a definite act of wishing, often with an infinitive to indicate what was desired: pugnare voluit (“he wished to fight”), hoc facere voluit (“he wished to do this”). It also appears in indirect statements after verbs of saying, thinking, or perceiving, e.g., Dixit se id facere voluisse (“He said that he had wished to do that”).

Voluit is encountered in classical authors, inscriptions, and liturgical Latin, typically in past contexts where a completed act of wishing is relevant to the narrative or reported speech. Its meaning hinges on the sense of volo, “to want,” rather than on any independent lexical sense of voluit as a standalone noun or adjective.