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Deus lo vult(1)9/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The expression bears witness to a religious sense of mission that was ready to use violence to achieve its goals. Deus lo volt or Deus lo vult represents a modification for the contemporaries of the First Crusade, who were not used to classical Latin and who spoke a large part of the Provencal or Limousin idiom hence the form Dieux el volt arose. ![]() “God wants it” is Deus vult in classical Latin, based on the irregular verb velle.
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