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Volume comes from Old French volume, from Latin volūmen ‘book, roll’, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to roll’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*welH-¹‘to roll’reconstructed
2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wéluHmn̥²‘rolling’reconstructed
3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*welūmən²reconstructed
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvolūmen²‘book, roll, scroll’
5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400volume²‘volume’
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500volume²
7. Englishearliest quotation 1867volume²

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin volvo
2. ² Wiktionary, English volume
3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1867, George Meredith, London: Chapman & Hall: “[…] thumping guns and pattering musket-shots, the long big…”.