vetulus

• veclus (late, proscribed)

From vetus (“old”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive ending).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯e.tu.lus/, [ˈu̯ɛt̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.tu.lus/, [ˈvɛːt̪ulus]

vetulus (feminine vetula, neuter vetulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. old; little old, poor old
   • 1522, The Profane Feast (Conuiuium profanum):

     Vetulus canis non facile assuescit loro ("It is hard to accustom an old dog to a leash")

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First/second-declension adjective.

(All via the late form veclus with regular syncope and *tl > cl.)

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: veclju
  • Megleno-Romanian: vecľu
  • Romanian: vechi
• Dalmatian:
  • vieclo
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vecchio
    • → Friulian: vecjo
    • → Sardinian: béciu, betzu
  • Neapolitan: viecchio
  • Sicilian: vecchiu
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Lombard: vègg
    • Piedmontese: vej, vegg
  • Friulian: vieli
  • Istriot: viecio
  • Romansch: vegl, vigl
  • Venetian: vecio
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: veyl, vell
    • Catalan: vell
  • Franco-Provençal: viely(o)
  • Old French: viel
    • Middle French: vieulx
      • French: vieux
    • Walloon: vî
  • Old Occitan: vielh
    • Occitan: vièlh
    • → Italian: veglio
• Ibero-Romance
  • Aragonese: viello
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: vieyu
    • Leonese: vieyu, viechu
    • Mirandese: bielho
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vello
    • Fala: vellu
    • Galician: vello
    • Portuguese: velho
  • Old Spanish: vieio, vyeio
    • Ladino: viejo
    • Spanish: viejo
• Insular Romance:
  • Logudorese: begru, egru (southern), beju, eju (northern)
  • Nuorese: becru, brecu

vetulus m (genitive vetulī); second declension

1. old man; little old man
   • Genesis 18:12 (in Latin)

     "et dominus meus vetulus ("and my lord is an old man")

Second-declension noun.

• vetula

• “vetulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vetulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vetulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vetulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Elskens, Etienne, compiler. Latin Words, Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans.
• Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Latin and the development of the Romance languages: The postclassical period, Vulgar Latin, 2007.