vello
See also: Vello and velló
Galician
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Un vello galego ("a Galician old man")
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vello, from Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus, diminutive of vetus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛʎo̝/
Adjective
vello m (feminine singular vella, masculine plural vellos, feminine plural vellas)
- old
- Aprendía moito falando con aquel home vello e sabio.
- I learned a lot by talking to that wise old man.
Antonyms
- novo
Noun
vello m (plural vellos, feminine vella, feminine plural vellas)
- 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
- Un vello que dea consellos / un rostro de fume e pan / que conte contos aos nenos / do cuco e do paspallás.
- Synonyms: ancián, vedraño
- 1978, Lois Álvarez Pousa, "A Sementeira" (song by Fuxan os Ventos):
- (slang) father
- Synonyms: padre, pai
References
- “vello” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “vello” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “vello” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “vello” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “vello” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Ingrian
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈʋelːo/, [ˈʋe̞ɫːŏ̞̥]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈʋelːoi̯/, [ˈʋe̞ɫːo̞i̯]
- Rhymes: -elːo, -elːoi̯
- Hyphenation: vel‧lo
Noun
vello
- 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.
- 1936, 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.
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Declension
| 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. | ||
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 652
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɛl.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
- Hyphenation: vèl‧lo
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin vellus, possibly crossed with villus.
Noun
vello m (plural velli)
- hair, fur
- fleece
- il vello d'oro ― the golden fleece
Further reading
- vello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
vello
- first-person singular present indicative of vellere
Further reading
- vello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- volle
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *welnō, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯el.loː/, [ˈu̯ɛlːʲoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvel.lo/, [ˈvɛlːo]
Verb
vellō (present infinitive vellere, perfect active vulsī or vellī, supine vulsum); third conjugation
- I pluck out (feathers etc)
- I depilate
- Martialis, Epigrammata
- quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracchia vellis.
- Martialis, Epigrammata
- I pull or tear down; I demolish
Conjugation
| 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 | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | vellere | vulsisse, vellisse | vulsūrum esse | vellī | vulsum esse | vulsum īrī | |
| participles | vellēns | — | vulsūrus | — | vulsus | vellendus, vellundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| vellendī | vellendō | vellendum | vellendō | vulsum | vulsū | ||
Derived terms
- āvellō
- convellō
- dēvellō
- dīvellō
- ēvellō
- pervellō
- praevellō
- revellō
- subvellō
- vellicō
Descendants
- Aromanian: bilescu, biliri
- Italian: vellere
- Romanian: beli, belire
References
- “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
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin villus (“hair, tuft of hair”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈbeʝo/ [ˈbe.ʝo]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈbeʎo/ [ˈbe.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈbeʃo/ [ˈbe.ʃo]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈbeʒo/ [ˈbe.ʒo]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝo
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎo
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃo
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒo
- Syllabification: ve‧llo
- Homophone: bello
Noun
vello m (plural vellos)
- body hair, androgenic hair, vellus hair
- facial hair
Derived terms
- vello androgénico
- vello corporal
- vello púbico
- velludo
Related terms
- velloso
Further reading
- “vello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014