vel

Borrowed from Latin vel (“or”).

vel

1. (logic) The ∨ symbol used to represent the inclusive or, which is a logical connective.^[1]

• vel non

• ELV, Lev., lev, lev-

• IPA^(key): /fɛl/

From Dutch vel, from Middle Dutch vel, from Old Dutch *fel, from Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pello-, *pelno-.

vel (plural velle, diminutive velletjie)

1. A skin, a hide.
2. A membrane, e.g. forming on boiling milk.
3. A sheet (e.g. of paper; incorrectly used for a page).

From Dutch vellen, from Middle Dutch vellen, from Old Dutch *fellen, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną.

vel (present vel, present participle vellende, past participle gevel)

1. (transitive) To fell.
2. (transitive, of verdicts, opinions) To decide, to pronounce.

From Proto-Albanian *wala, Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, twist”). From the same root of vjell and vjel.

vel (aorist vela, participle velur)

1. to overeat, eat too much

• vjell
• vjel

Borrowed from Latin vēlum.

vel m

1. veil

Inherited from Old Catalan vel, from Latin vēlum. Compare Occitan vel, French voile, Spanish velo.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvəl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvɛl]

vel m (plural vels)

1. veil

• “vel”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “vel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vel

1. soft mutation of mel
2. mixed mutation after 'th of mel

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛl]

vel

1. second-person singular imperative of velet

From Old Danish væl, from Old Norse vel, from Proto-Germanic *wela (“well”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛl/
• ("I suppose"): IPA^(key): /vɛl/

vel

1. well
2. I suppose, maybe

   Der er vel noget sandhed i det.

   I suppose there is some truth in it.

vel

1. (used as a tag question) is it the case

   Der er ikke slanger, vel?

   There aren't any snakes, are there?

   Du er ikke sur på mig, vel?

   You are not angry with me, are you?

• ikke?, ikke sandt?, ikke også?

• “vel” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /vɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: vel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

From Middle Dutch vel, from Old Dutch *fel, from Proto-West Germanic *fell, from Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pello-, *pelno-, whence Latin pellis, Greek πέλλα; cognate with German Fell.

vel n (plural vellen, diminutive velletje n)

1. a skin, a hide

   Haar velletje zat tussen de deur.

   Her skin was caught in the door.

2. a fur, a pelt

   Tientallen vellen van beren en wolven lagen opeengestapeld.

   Tens of pelts of bears and wolves had been stacked on each other.

3. a sheet (e.g. of paper; incorrectly used for a page)

   Het glas van een gloeilamp is niet veel dikker dan een vel papier

   The glass of a lightbulb is not much thicker than a sheet of paper.

4. a membrane, e.g. forming on boiling milk

   Deze saus moet niet te lang koken, anders ontstaan er vellen.

   This sauce shouldn't boil for too long or else membranes will appear.

5. a rag, a shred

• (skin): huid
• (fur): pels
• (sheet): blad n

• Afrikaans: vel
• Jersey Dutch: vääl
• Negerhollands: vel, fel
• → Indonesian: pel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vel

1. inflection of vellen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
• Franck, Johannes (1892) Etymologisch woordenboek der nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), The Hague: 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff

vel

1. alternative spelling of veel

vel

1. alternative spelling of veel

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese veer. Compare Portuguese ver and Galician ver.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbel/
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: vel

vel

1. to see

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

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vel n (genitive singular vels, plural vel)

1. tail (of a bird)

vel

1. alternative spelling of veel

vel

1. alternative spelling of veel

• IPA^(key): /vɛːl/
• Rhymes: -ɛːl

From Old Norse vel, from Proto-Germanic *wela.

vel (comparative betur, superlative best) (háttaratviksorð (“adverb of manner”))

1. well

vel

1. inflection of velja:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative singular

Borrowed from Latin vel.

• IPA^(key): /vɛl/
• Hyphenation: vel

vel

1. (rare) and/or (inclusive "or")

   Ka vu volas manjor vel hamburger vel pizza?

   Do you want to eat a hamburger and/or a pizza?

   • 1914, Félix Mirot, La Langue Auxiliaire, page 90:

     Me certe prenos akompananto: vel mea frato, vel mea kuzo.

     I will certainly bring company: either my sibling and/or my cousin.

After the adoption of the word by the Akademio in 1913-14, it didn't see much use. Those that actually used the word, didn't seem to use it correctly either. They recommended just using the exclusive for both (i.e. od and o), and by the following year, they proposed to annul the adoption. If they actually officially annulled the word is unknown.

• od, o

• ꝉ (abbreviation)
• ƚ (abbreviation)
• vƚ (abbreviation)
• uƚ (abbreviation)

From earlier *well, from *wels, from *welsi (“you wish”), thus originally the second-person singular present active indicative form of volō (“I will, I wish”). The semantic development may have been helped by the fortuitous similarity to -ve.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛl]

vel

1. or; and/or
   • 2005, D.J. Krus, Elements of Propositional Calculus:

     In theatro comediae vel tragediae aguntur.

     In theater, comedies or tragedies are played.

2. even

• velut

• Translingual: ∨ (symbol of disjunction)
• English: vel sim., vel

• aut

• “vĕl”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vel”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vel”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• "1. VEL", 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)
• "2. VEL", 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)
• vĕl in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,651.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• “uel” on page 2,021–2,022 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vel”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,068/1

vel

1. inflection of velt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Compare Estonian veel, Latvian vēl (“more, else, yet”). According to Karulis, Latvian vēl is an inherited word cognate with vēls (“late”), thus perhaps an old Baltic borrowing in Finnic languages; this is supported by EES.^[1] Its use before jo, juo forming comparatives of adjectives^[2] could be a more recent calque, cf., Latvian labāk (“better”) — vēl jo labāk (“the better, even better”).

• IPA^(key): /vel/

ve'l

1. more, else, yet
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA

     mis sa vel äd tō!

     what do you think you're doing!? ~ what else will you come up with! (lit. "what else do you want [to come up with]!")

     alā ajjõ vanā kouv vizzõ, koņtš ūž vel äb ūo vaļmõz

     do not fill up the old well until a new one is not (yet) ready

vel

1. present dependent form of bee

   Abbyr dy vel eh çheet.

   Let us assume that he is coming.

   As ta'n chooid share jeh nagh vel ee ny ben Vanninagh.

   The beauty of it is that she is not Manx.

   Cha vel breagerey dy ve credjit ga dy vel eh ginsh yn irriney.

   A liar is not to be believed even if he tells the truth.

   Vel oo ayns shoh rish foddey?

   Have you been here long?

• Use with cha primarily confined to higher registers.

From Old Norse vel, from Proto-Germanic *wela, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

vel

1. well

• “vel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛlː/, /ʋeːl/

From Old Norse vel, from Proto-Germanic *wela, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-. Akin to English well.

vel

1. well
2. certainly, probably

   Ja, det er vel rett.

   Yes, that is probably true./Yes, I suppose that is true.

vel

1. inflection of velja:
   1. present
   2. imperative

• “vel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *fell, whence also Old English fell.

vel n

1. A fur.

• German: Fell

From Proto-Germanic *wela (“well”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-. Cognate with Old English wel, Old Frisian wela, Old Saxon wela, Old High German wola, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰 (waila).

vel (comparative betr, superlative bazt)

1. well
2. easily
3. fully, amply, largely

• Icelandic: vel
• Faroese: væl
• Norwegian: vel
• Old Swedish: væl, val
  • Swedish: väl
• Old Danish: væl
  • Danish: vel

• “vel”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vel”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vel”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• "vel", 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)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)
    

From Latin vēlum.

• IPA^(key): /vel/

vel m (plural vej)

1. veil

• velé

Unadapted borrowing from Latin vel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: vel

vel

1. (with pseudonyms) AKA, alias

   Synonyms: aka, alias

• vel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• vel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic велии (velii), from Proto-Slavic *velь.

vel m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. (dated, historical) great (preceding a medieval rank in Wallachia or Moldavia)

• “vel”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Volapük cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : vel     Ordinal : velid

vel

1. seven

• velüm

vel

1. alternative form of vele
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 19:

     A pipere vel bak lik own in a smote,

     The piper fell back like one well smitten,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[4], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133