vello

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛʎo̝/

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

• “vello” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vello” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vello” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vello” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vello” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• (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.

   • 1936, 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

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-.

• (Classical) 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

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014