velo
التعريفات والمعاني
== Catalan ==
=== Verb ===
velo
first-person singular present indicative of velar
== Chavacano ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Spanish velo, from Old Spanish velo, from Latin vēlum.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈbelo/, [ˈbe.lo]
Hyphenation: ve‧lo
=== Noun ===
velo
veil
== Dutch ==
=== Alternative forms ===
vélo
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French vélo.
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Noun ===
velo m (plural velos, diminutive velootje n)
(Belgium, informal) bicycle
==== Related terms ====
=== Anagrams ===
love, voel
== Esperanto ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Italian vela.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈvelo/
Rhymes: -elo
Syllabification: ve‧lo
=== Noun ===
velo (accusative singular velon, plural veloj, accusative plural velojn)
sail
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“velo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
“velo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
== Finnish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈʋeloˣ/, [ˈʋe̞lo̞(ʔ)]
Rhymes: -elo
Syllabification(key): ve‧lo
Hyphenation(key): ve‧lo
=== Verb ===
velo
inflection of velkoa:
present active indicative connegative
second-person singular present imperative
second-person singular present active imperative connegative
== Galician ==
=== Verb ===
velo
first-person singular present indicative of velar
== Ido ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from English veil, French voile, Italian velo, Spanish velo.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈvelo/
=== Noun ===
velo (plural veli)
veil (fabric used to conceal)
(figurative) cover, screen, shade
==== Derived terms ====
== Italian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈve.lo/
Rhymes: -elo
Hyphenation: vé‧lo
=== Etymology 1 ===
From Latin vēlum, from Proto-Indo-European.
==== Noun ====
velo m (plural veli)
veil
(anatomy) velum
=== Etymology 2 ===
==== Noun ====
velo m (plural veli) (literary, archaic)
alternative form of vela
==== References ====
velo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
=== Etymology 3 ===
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
==== Verb ====
velo
first-person singular present indicative of velare
=== Anagrams ===
Elvo, levo, levò, vole
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From vēlum (“covering, veil”) + -ō.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈweː.ɫoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.lo]
=== Verb ===
vēlō (present infinitive vēlāre, perfect active vēlāvī, supine vēlātum); first conjugation
to cover, wrap, veil
Synonyms: inducō, obvolvō, induō, saepiō, sūmō
Antonyms: nūdō, spoliō, exuō
(figuratively) to 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
==== Conjugation ====
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.2At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
==== Descendants ====
=== References ===
“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, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
== Lingala ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from French vélo.
=== Noun ===
velo
bicycle
== Portuguese ==
=== Verb ===
velo
first-person singular present indicative of velar
== Romansh ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from German Velo, from French vélo, from vélocipède (“velocipede”).
=== Noun ===
velo m (plural velos)
bicycle
== Spanish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈbelo/ [ˈbe.lo]
Rhymes: -elo
Syllabification: ve‧lo
=== Etymology 1 ===
Inherited from Old Spanish velo, from Latin vēlum (“sail; veil”), from Proto-Indo-European.
==== Noun ====
velo m (plural velos)
veil (something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of a diaphanous material)
===== Derived terms =====
===== Related terms =====
===== Descendants =====
Chavacano: velo
→ Central Bikol: belo
→ Tagalog: belo
=== Etymology 2 ===
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
==== Verb ====
velo
second-person singular imperative of ir combined with lo
first-person singular present indicative of velar
inflection of ver:
second-person singular imperative combined with lo
second-person singular voseo imperative combined with lo
=== Further reading ===
“velo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025