velo

velo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of velar

Borrowed from French vélo.

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velo m (plural velos, diminutive velootje n)

1. (Belgium, informal) bicycle

• velodroom

• love, voel

Borrowed from Italian vela.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvelo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: ve‧lo

velo (accusative singular velon, plural veloj, accusative plural velojn)

1. sail

• Rhymes: -elo

velo

1. present active indicative connegative of velkoa
2. second-person singular present imperative of velkoa
3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of velkoa

Borrowed from English veil, French voile, Spanish and Italian velo.

velo (plural veli)

1. veil (fabric used to conceal)
2. (figurative) cover, screen, shade

• desvelizar (“to unveil; to disclose”)
• velizar (“to veil, disguise, shroud, enshroud, becloud, whitewash”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.lo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: vé‧lo

From Latin vēlum, from Proto-Indo-European.

velo m (plural veli)

1. veil
2. (anatomy) velum

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

velo

1. first-person singular present indicative of velare

• Elvo, levo, levò, vole

From vēlum (“covering, veil”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.loː/, [ˈu̯eːɫ̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.lo/, [ˈvɛːlo]

vēlō (present infinitive vēlāre, perfect active vēlāvī, supine vēlātum); first conjugation

1. I cover, wrap, veil
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.311-312:

     ecce corōnātīs pānīs dēpendet asellīs,
     et vēlant scabrās flōridā sertā molās.

     Behold! Bread hangs down from garlanded donkeys,
     and they cover the rough millstones with a floral wreath.
     (See Vestalia.)

   Synonyms: inducō, obvolvō, induō, saepiō, sūmō

   Antonyms: nūdō, spoliō

2. (figuratively) I conceal, cover

   Synonyms: dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abscondō, abdō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
²At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• revēlō
• vēlāmen

• vēlum

• “velo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “velo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• velo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• velo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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
    

velo

1. first-person singular present indicative of velar

Borrowed from German Velo, from French vélo, from vélocipède (“velocipede”).

velo m (plural velos)

1. bicycle

• IPA^(key): /ˈbelo/ [ˈbe.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: ve‧lo

From Old Spanish velo, from Latin vēlum (“sail; veil”), from Proto-Indo-European.

velo m (plural velos)

1. veil (something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of a diaphanous material)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

velo

1. second-person singular imperative of ir combined with lo
2. first-person singular present indicative of velar
3. inflection of ver:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with lo
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with lo

• “velo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014