velo

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/
• Hyphenation: ve‧lo
• Rhymes: -elo

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

1. sail

• Rhymes: -elo

velo

1. Indicative present connegative form of velkoa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of velkoa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of velkoa.

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

velo (plural veli)

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

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

From Latin vēlum, from from Proto-Indo-European.

velo m (plural veli)

1. veil
2. (anatomy) velum

velo

1. first-person singular present indicative of velare

• levo, levò, vole

From vēlum (“sail”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.loː/, [ˈweː.ɫoː]

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

1. I cover, wrap, veil
2. (figuratively) I conceal, cover

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

• 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, 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
    

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

velo m (plural velos)

1. bicycle

• IPA^(key): /ˈbelo/

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)

• velo del paladar

• velar

See the etymology of the main entry.

velo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of velar.

velo

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ver, ve and the pronoun lo.

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