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vello

See also: Vello and velló

Galician

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Un vello galego ("an old Galician man")

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese vello, from Late Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus. Compare Aragonese viello.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛɟo/ [ˈbɛ.ɟʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛɟo
  • Hyphenation: ve‧llo

Adjective

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vello (feminine vella, masculine plural vellos, feminine plural vellas)

  1. old
    Antonym: novo
    Aprendía moito falando con aquel home vello e sabio.
    I learned a lot by talking to that wise old man.

Noun

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vello m (plural vellos, feminine vella, feminine plural vellas)

  1. old man
    • 1978, Lois Álvarez Pousa, "A Sementeira" (song by Fuxan os Ventos):
      Un vello que dea consellos / un rostro de fume e pan / que conte contos aos nenos / do cuco e do paspallás.
      An old man who gives counsel / a face of smoke and bread / who tells tales to the children / about the cuckoo and the quail
    Synonyms: ancián, vedraño
  2. (slang) father
    Synonyms: padre, pai

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Ingrian

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Noun

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vello

  1. Synonym of veljä (“brother”)
    • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:
      Tahtoi Ljoșa peent velloa Borjaa noissa opettammaa kirjaa lukomaa.
      Ljoša wanted to begin to teach [his] little brother Borja to read a book.
    • 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 34:
      Elivät miunka mama i siso ja peen vello.
      With me lived mum and [my] sister and [my] little brother.

Declension

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Declension of vello (type 4/koivu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative vello vellot
genitive vellon velloin, velloloin
partitive velloa velloja, velloloja
illative velloo velloi, velloloihe
inessive velloos vellois, vellolois
elative vellost velloist, velloloist
allative vellolle velloille, velloloille
adessive vellool velloil, velloloil
ablative vellolt velloilt, velloloilt
translative velloks velloiks, velloloiks
essive vellonna, velloon velloinna, velloloinna, velloin, velloloin
exessive1) vellont velloint, velloloint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

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  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 652

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin vellus, possibly crossed with villus.

Noun

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vello m (plural velli)

  1. hair, fur
  2. fleece
    il vello d'oro ― the golden fleece

Further reading

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  • vello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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vello

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vellere

Further reading

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  • vello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *welnō, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to hit, strike”).[1] The past participle was analogously changed from Proto-Italic *woltos to vulsus; a more logical outcome would be *vultus. See pellō for a similar analogy.

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Verb

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vellō (present infinitive vellere, perfect active vulsī or vellī, supine vulsum); third conjugation

  1. to pluck out (feathers, etc.)
  2. to depilate
    • Martialis, Epigrammata
      quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracchia vellis.
  3. to pull or tear down; to demolish

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of vellō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vellō vellis vellit vellimus vellitis vellunt
imperfect vellēbam vellēbās vellēbat vellēbāmus vellēbātis vellēbant
future vellam vellēs vellet vellēmus vellētis vellent
perfect vulsī,
vellī 		vulsistī,
vellistī 		vulsit,
vellit 		vulsimus,
vellimus 		vulsistis,
vellistis 		vulsērunt,
vulsēre,
vellērunt,
vellēre
pluperfect vulseram,
velleram 		vulserās,
vellerās 		vulserat,
vellerat 		vulserāmus,
vellerāmus 		vulserātis,
vellerātis 		vulserant,
vellerant
future perfect vulserō,
vellerō 		vulseris,
velleris 		vulserit,
vellerit 		vulserimus,
vellerimus 		vulseritis,
velleritis 		vulserint,
vellerint
passive present vellor velleris,
vellere 		vellitur vellimur velliminī velluntur
imperfect vellēbar vellēbāris,
vellēbāre 		vellēbātur vellēbāmur vellēbāminī vellēbantur
future vellar vellēris,
vellēre 		vellētur vellēmur vellēminī vellentur
perfect vulsus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect vulsus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect vulsus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vellam vellās vellat vellāmus vellātis vellant
imperfect vellerem vellerēs velleret vellerēmus vellerētis vellerent
perfect vulserim,
vellerim 		vulserīs,
vellerīs 		vulserit,
vellerit 		vulserīmus,
vellerīmus 		vulserītis,
vellerītis 		vulserint,
vellerint
pluperfect vulsissem,
vellissem 		vulsissēs,
vellissēs 		vulsisset,
vellisset 		vulsissēmus,
vellissēmus 		vulsissētis,
vellissētis 		vulsissent,
vellissent
passive present vellar vellāris,
vellāre 		vellātur vellāmur vellāminī vellantur
imperfect vellerer vellerēris,
vellerēre 		vellerētur vellerēmur vellerēminī vellerentur
perfect vulsus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect vulsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — velle — — vellite —
future — vellitō vellitō — vellitōte velluntō
passive present — vellere — — velliminī —
future — vellitor vellitor — — velluntor
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present vellere vellī vellēns —
future vulsūrum esse vulsum īrī vulsūrus vellendus,
vellundus
perfect vulsisse,
vellisse 		vulsum esse — vulsus
future perfect — vulsum fore — —
perfect potential vulsūrum fuisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
vellendī vellendō vellendum vellendō vulsum vulsū

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Aromanian: bilescu, biliri
  • Italian: vellere
  • Romanian: beli, belire

References

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  • “vello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vellō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 659

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin villus (“hair, tuft of hair”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈbeʝo/ [ˈbe.ʝo]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈbeʎo/ [ˈbe.ʎo]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈbeʃo/ [ˈbe.ʃo]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈbeʒo/ [ˈbe.ʒo]

 

Noun

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vello m (plural vellos)

  1. body hair, androgenic hair, vellus hair
  2. facial hair

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