# vello
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* velho (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛɟo/ [ˈbɛ.ɟʊ]
* Rhymes: -ɛɟo
* Hyphenation: ve‧llo

### Adjective

vello (feminine vella, masculine plural vellos, feminine plural vellas)
* 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)
* 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
* (slang) father
    Synonyms: padre, pai

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vello”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vello”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (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: /ˈʋelːo/, [ˈʋe̞ɫːŏ̞̥]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈʋelːoi̯/, [ˈʋe̞ɫːo̞i̯]
* Rhymes: -elːo, -elːoi̯
* Hyphenation: vel‧lo

### Noun

vello
* 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
### References

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

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛl.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɛllo
* Hyphenation: vèl‧lo

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin vellus, possibly crossed with villus.

#### Noun

vello m (plural velli)
* hair, fur
* 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
* 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”). 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯el.loː/, [ˈu̯ɛlːʲoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvel.lo/, [ˈvɛlːo]

### Verb

vellō (present infinitive vellere, perfect active vulsī or vellī, supine vulsum); third conjugation
* to pluck out (feathers, etc.)
* to depilate
** Martialis, Epigrammata
    quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracchia vellis.
* to pull or tear down; to demolish

#### 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.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vellō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 659

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeʝo/ [ˈbe.ʝo]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈbeʝo/ [ˈbe.ʝo]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈbeʎo/ [ˈbe.ʎo]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈbeʃo/ [ˈbe.ʃo]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈbeʒo/ [ˈbe.ʒo]
* Rhymes: -eʝo
* Rhymes: -eʝo
* Rhymes: -eʎo
* Rhymes: -eʃo
* Rhymes: -eʒo
* Syllabification: ve‧llo
* Homophone: bello

### Noun

vello m (plural vellos)
* body hair, androgenic hair, vellus hair
* 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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10