{"id":645476,"date":"2024-10-31T09:07:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=645476"},"modified":"2024-10-31T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:48:38","slug":"whats-the-etymology-of-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/31\/whats-the-etymology-of-volatility\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the etymology of volatility?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/g\u00ca\u00b7elH-\">gelH<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d to throw!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The word <em>volatility<\/em> traces its origins to the Latin root <em>volatilis<\/em>, meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fleeting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153swift,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d derived from <em>volare<\/em>, meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to fly.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This Latin term describes something that moves quickly or is prone to change. In English, the term <em>volatile<\/em> initially entered the language in the late Middle Ages, around the 14th century, to describe substances that could evaporate or disperse into the air swiftly, as if \u00e2\u20ac\u0153flying away.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the 17th century, <em>volatility<\/em> had broadened in meaning beyond physical substances to characterize anything prone to quick changes, instability, or unpredictability. This broadened usage made <em>volatility<\/em> suitable for describing financial markets, emotions, or behaviors that are unpredictable or subject to sudden shifts. Thus, <em>volatility<\/em> evolved to capture both physical transformation (as in chemistry) and metaphorical instability or unpredictability (as in financial or emotional contexts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gelH\u00e2\u20ac\u201d to throw! The word volatility traces its origins to the Latin root volatilis, meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fleeting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153swift,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d derived from volare, meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to fly.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This Latin term describes something that moves quickly or is prone to change. In English, the term volatile initially entered the language in the late Middle Ages, around the 14th century, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645479,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645476\/revisions\/645479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}