velum
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). Doublet of veil.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- A thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain, such as:
- (anatomy) The soft palate.
- (botany) A thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relatives.
- (mycology) A veil-like membrane of immature mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is torn by growth, to reveal the gills.
- (malacology) A locomotory and feeding organ provided with cilia found in the larval stage of bivalves.
- (zoology) A annular membrane, typically bordering a cavity, especially in certain molluscs, medusae, and other invertebrates.
- A delicate membrane found on certain protists.
- (meteorology) An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance; normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus.
Derived termsEdit
- velar (adjective)
ReferencesEdit
- “velum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “velum” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
FaroeseEdit
NounEdit
velum
FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin velum (“veil, sail”).
NounEdit
velum m (plural velums)
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave a web”) or *weǵʰ- (“to ride”), thus "that which propels" (compare its diminutive noun vexillum, as in pālus, paxillus). If the latter, a direct cognate is Proto-Slavic *veslo (“oar”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈweː.lum/, [ˈweː.ɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.lum/, [ˈvɛː.lum]
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NounEdit
vēlum n (genitive vēlī); second declension
- A cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning.
- a. 224, Ulpiānus, Dīgesta seu Pandectae[1], volume XXX, 41.10:
- Sed sī cancellī sint vel vēla, lēgārī poterunt, nōn tamen fistulae vel castellī.
- But while bar-doors or their veils can be legated, not so water-pipes or water-basins.
- (usually in the plural) The sail of a ship.
InflectionEdit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vēlum | vēla |
Genitive | vēlī | vēlōrum |
Dative | vēlō | vēlīs |
Accusative | vēlum | vēla |
Ablative | vēlō | vēlīs |
Vocative | vēlum | vēla |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Descendants of velum in other languages
- → Albanian: vel
- → English: velum
- → Hebrew: וִילוֹן (wīlṓn)
- → Italian: velo
- Latin: vēla pl
- Old French: voil, veil
- Old Occitan:
- Old Portuguese: veo
- Portuguese: véu
- → Romansch: vel
- → Romanian: văl
- → Spanish: velo
ReferencesEdit
- velum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- velum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- velum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- velum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to put to sea: vela in altum dare (Liv. 25. 27)
- (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela facere, pandere
- (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela dare
- (ambiguous) to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.)
- (ambiguous) sails and rigging: vela armamentaque
- (ambiguous) to put to sea: vela in altum dare (Liv. 25. 27)
- velum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers