# velo
## 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: /ˈbelo/, [ˈbe.lo]
* Hyphenation: ve‧lo

### Noun

velo
* veil

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French vélo.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

velo m (plural velos, diminutive velootje n)
* (Belgium, informal) bicycle

#### Related terms

* velodroom

### Anagrams

* love, voel

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vela.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvelo]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: ve‧lo

### Noun

velo (accusative singular velon, plural veloj, accusative plural velojn)
* sail

#### Derived terms

* antaŭvelo (“foresail”)
* ĉefvelo (“mainsail”)
* veli (“to sail”)
* velŝipo (“sailing ship”)

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋeloˣ/, [ˈʋe̞lo̞(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: 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: /ˈvelo/

### Noun

velo (plural veli)
* veil (fabric used to conceal)
* (figurative) cover, screen, shade

#### Derived terms

* desvelizar (“to unveil; to disclose”)
* velizar (“to veil, disguise, shroud, enshroud, becloud, whitewash”)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

* velo$^2$ 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: /ˈu̯eː.loː/, [ˈu̯eːɫ̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈve.lo/, [ˈvɛːlo]

### 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
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.311–312:ecce corōnātīs pānīs dēpendet asellīs, et vēlant scabrās flōridā sertā molās.Behold! Bread hangs down from garlanded donkeys, and they cover the rough millstones with a floral wreath. (See Vestalia.)
* (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

$^1$The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested. $^2$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* revēlō
* vēlāmen
* vēlātiō

#### Related terms

* vēlum

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: velë
* Catalan: velar
* French: voiler
* Italian: velare
* Piedmontese: velé
* Spanish: velar
* Venetan: veƚar

### 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’s 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, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to put to sea: vela in altum dare (Liv. 25. 27) (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela facere, pandere (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela dare (ambiguous) to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.) (ambiguous) sails and rigging: vela armamentaque

## Portuguese
### Verb

velo
* first-person singular present indicative of velar

## Romansch
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Velo, from French vélo, from vélocipède (“velocipede”).

### Noun

velo m (plural velos)
* bicycle

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

* correr el velo
* velo de novia
* velo del paladar

##### Related terms

* correr un tupido velo
* velar

##### Descendants

* Chavacano: velo
* → Bikol Central: 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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10