vello

See also: Vello and velló

Galician

Un vello galego ("an old Galician man")

Alternative forms

• velho (reintegrationist)
• veyo (Galician-Asturian)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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.

Noun

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

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “vello”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “vello”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

Ingrian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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.

References

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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin vellus, possibly crossed with villus.

Noun

vello m (plural velli)

1. hair, fur
2. fleece

   il vello d'oro ― the golden fleece

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vello

1. first-person singular present indicative of vellere

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• volle

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *welnō, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to hit, strike”) (whence also vulnus, Czech válka, Old Norse valkyrja). 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.

Compare typologically a semantic shift in the opposite direction Russian дра́ться (drátʹsja) <драть (dratʹ) (akin to выдира́ть (vydirátʹ)).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

   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		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		vellere			vellī			vellēns			—
future		vulsūrum esse			vulsum īrī			vulsūrus			vellendus, vellundus
perfect		vulsisse, vellisse			vulsum esse			—			vulsus
future perfect		—			vulsum fore			—			—
perfect potential		vulsūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		vellendī		vellendō		vellendum		vellendō		vulsum		vulsū

Derived terms

• āvellō
• convellō
• dēvellō
• dīvellō
• ēvellō
• pervellō
• praevellō
• revellō
• subvellō
• vellicō

Descendants

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

References

• “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.

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeʝo/ [ˈbe.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeʝo/ [ˈbe.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈbeʎo/ [ˈbe.ʎo] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈbeʃo/ [ˈbe.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈbeʒo/ [ˈbe.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -eʝo

• Rhymes: -eʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -eʎo (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: ve‧llo
• Homophone: bello

Noun

vello m (plural vellos)

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

Derived terms

• vello androgénico
• vello corporal
• vello púbico
• velludo

Related terms

• velloso

Further reading

• “vello”, 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

Votic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ingrian vello.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈvelːo/, [ˈvʲeɫːo]
• Rhymes: -elːo
• Hyphenation: vel‧lo

Noun

vello

1. brother

   Synonym: velli

Inflection

Declension of vello (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	vello	vellod
genitive	vello	vellojõ
partitive	velloa	velloit
illative	vello, vellosõ	velloisõ
inessive	velloz	velloiz
elative	velloss	velloiss
allative	vellollõ	velloillõ
adessive	velloll	velloill
ablative	vellolt	velloilt
translative	vellossi	velloissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects.

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “vello”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Tallinn