Dictionary

volta en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈvoʊltə/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.

Meanings

1. A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
2. A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
3. A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
   • […][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision. 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, quoting Lamorna Ash, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:

Forms

Synonyms

volte · levalto