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: ILG
• 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.

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.

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

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

Borrowed 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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯el.loː/, [ˈu̯ɛlːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvel.lo/, [ˈvɛlːo]

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 of vellō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vellō	vellis	vellit	vellimus	vellitis	vellunt
	imperfect	vellēbam	vellēbās	vellēbat	vellēbāmus	vellēbātis	vellēbant
	future	vellam	vellēs	vellet	vellēmus	vellētis	vellent
	perfect	vulsī, vellī	vulsistī, vellistī	vulsit, vellit	vulsimus, vellimus	vulsistis, vellistis	vulsērunt, vulsēre, vellērunt, vellēre
	pluperfect	vulseram, velleram	vulserās, vellerās	vulserat, vellerat	vulserāmus, vellerāmus	vulserātis, vellerātis	vulserant, vellerant
	future perfect	vulserō, vellerō	vulseris, velleris	vulserit, vellerit	vulserimus, vellerimus	vulseritis, velleritis	vulserint, vellerint
passive	present	vellor	velleris, vellere	vellitur	vellimur	velliminī	velluntur
	imperfect	vellēbar	vellēbāris, vellēbāre	vellēbātur	vellēbāmur	vellēbāminī	vellēbantur
	future	vellar	vellēris, vellēre	vellētur	vellēmur	vellēminī	vellentur
	perfect	vulsus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	vulsus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	vulsus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vellam	vellās	vellat	vellāmus	vellātis	vellant
	imperfect	vellerem	vellerēs	velleret	vellerēmus	vellerētis	vellerent
	perfect	vulserim, vellerim	vulserīs, vellerīs	vulserit, vellerit	vulserīmus, vellerīmus	vulserītis, vellerītis	vulserint, vellerint
	pluperfect	vulsissem, vellissem	vulsissēs, vellissēs	vulsisset, vellisset	vulsissēmus, vellissēmus	vulsissētis, vellissētis	vulsissent, vellissent
passive	present	vellar	vellāris, vellāre	vellātur	vellāmur	vellāminī	vellantur
	imperfect	vellerer	vellerēris, vellerēre	vellerētur	vellerēmur	vellerēminī	vellerentur
	perfect	vulsus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	vulsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	velle	—	—	vellite	—
	future	—	vellitō	vellitō	—	vellitōte	velluntō
passive	present	—	vellere	—	—	velliminī	—
	future	—	vellitor	vellitor	—	—	velluntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		vellere	vulsisse, vellisse	vulsūrum esse	vellī	vulsum esse	vulsum īrī
participles		vellēns	—	vulsūrus	—	vulsus	vellendus, vellundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		vellendī	vellendō	vellendum	vellendō	vulsum	vulsū

• 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 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28