velut
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
velut (not comparable)
- even as, as, just as, like, as if
- 1230, “O Fortuna”, in Carmina Burana:
- O fortuna uelud luna ſtatu uariabiliſ...
- Oh Fortune, like the Moon of variable state...
- namely, that is to say, to be specific
- re contrahitur obligatio velut mutui datione
- an obligation contracted by (transferring) the thing, namely, by giving it in mutuum
- Cf. On the so-called Real Contract in the Institutes of Gaius
References edit
- “velut”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “velut”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- velut in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.