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Would the plural be "volte"?
*Voltae
Hmm, I think Volti assuming Volta is masculine: https://connex-ita.com/plural-in-italian/
Voltae looks more like Latin. Romani ite domum!
Now write it out a hundred times!
Italian here. Plural would still be Volta, because it already is in a sense. Now, for the actual words "volta" meaning vault, arch, and "volta" meaning "time" (as in "that time we did that"), then the plural is "volte".
I do not know Italian, but I'd be surprised if a word ending on "a" were masculine. Usually, "a" indicates feminine, making the plural "e"
Ancient Romans gobbled a lot of classical greek; the masculine -a nouns are usually greek origin (sistema, tema, problema), but they are the exception.
Volta is a proper name, though, so there wouldn't be any rules.
It would be neutrum in German. (the forbidden sex)
Voltae would be Latin, in Italian, Volte is the correct plural.
In German it would be Voltae.
And now let the Italian and the German far right fight over it.