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vello

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See also: Vello and velló

Galician

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Un vello galego ("an old Galician man")

Alternative forms

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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

References

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Ingrian

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Pronunciation

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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.

References

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

Italian

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Pronunciation

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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'orothe 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

Anagrams

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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]

Pronunciation

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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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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

Spanish

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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

Derived terms

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Further reading

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