vello

• velho (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vello, from Late Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus. Compare Aragonese viello.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɟo/ [ˈbɛ.ɟʊ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɟo
• Hyphenation: ve‧llo

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.

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vello”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vello”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vello”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vello”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vello”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋelːo/, [ˈʋe̞ɫːŏ̞̥]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋelːoi̯/, [ˈʋe̞ɫːo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -elːo, -elːoi̯
• Hyphenation: vel‧lo

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛl.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛllo
• Hyphenation: vèl‧lo

From Latin vellus, possibly crossed with villus.

vello m (plural velli)

1. hair, fur
2. fleece

   il vello d'oro ― the golden fleece

• vello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vello

1. first-person singular present indicative of vellere

• vello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• volle

From Proto-Italic *welnō, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to hit, strike”).^[1] The past participle was analogously changed from Proto-Italic *woltos to vulsus; a more logical outcome would be *vultus. See pellō for a similar analogy.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛl.loː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛl.lo]

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

• Aromanian: bilescu, biliri
• Italian: vellere
• Romanian: beli, belire

• “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.

Inherited from Latin villus (“hair, tuft of hair”).

• Syllabification: ve‧llo
• Homophone: bello

vello m (plural vellos)

1. body hair, androgenic hair, vellus hair
2. facial hair

• “vello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024