velum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). Doublet of veil.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈviː.ləm/, /ˈvɛl.əm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːləm
Noun
[edit]- a thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain, such as:
- (anatomy) the soft palate
- (botany) a thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relatives
- (mycology) a veil-like membrane of immature mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is torn by growth, to reveal the gills
- (malacology) a locomotory and feeding organ provided with cilia found in the larval stage of bivalves
- (zoology) a annular membrane, typically bordering a cavity, especially in certain molluscs, medusae, and other invertebrates
- a delicate membrane found on certain protists
- (meteorology) an accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance; normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus
Derived terms
[edit]- velar (adjective)
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- “velum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “velum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Noun
[edit]velum
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin velum (“veil, sail”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]velum m (plural velums)
Further reading
[edit]- “velum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vēlum.
Noun
[edit]vèlum (first-person possessive velumku, second-person possessive velummu, third-person possessive velumnya)
- (anatomy, linguistics) velum: the soft palate.
- veil: a covering for a person or thing; as, a caul.
Etymology 2
[edit]From English vellum, from Old French velin (Modern French vélin), from Latin vitulinus (“of a calf”).
Noun
[edit]vèlum (first-person possessive velumku, second-person possessive velummu, third-person possessive velumnya)
- vellum: a type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf.
Further reading
[edit]- “velum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *wekslom (note the Latin term's diminutive form vēxillum (as in pālus > pāxillus), which lends credence to this reconstruction), with two competing theories:
- From Proto-Indo-European *wegslom, from *weg- (“to weave, bind”). Cognate with English wick, Welsh gweu (“to weave”).[1]
- Others refer it to *weǵʰ- (“to ride”), thus "that which propels"; in this case, cognate with Proto-Slavic *veslo (“oar”). This is semantically less attractive than the above theory.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯eː.lum/, [ˈu̯eːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.lum/, [ˈvɛːlum]
Noun
[edit]vēlum n (genitive vēlī); second declension
- a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
- a. 224, Ulpiānus, Dīgesta seu Pandectae[1], volume XXX, section 41.10:
- Sed sī cancellī sint vel vēla, lēgārī poterunt, nōn tamen fistulae vel castellī.
- But while bar-doors or their veils can be legated, not so water-pipes or water-basins.
- (usually in the plural) the sail of a ship
- (anatomy) the soft palate
Inflection
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vēlum | vēla |
Genitive | vēlī | vēlōrum |
Dative | vēlō | vēlīs |
Accusative | vēlum | vēla |
Ablative | vēlō | vēlīs |
Vocative | vēlum | vēla |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: vel
- → English: velum
- → Hebrew: וִילוֹן (wīlṓn)
- Italian: velo
- Latin: vēla pl
- Old French: voil, veil
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: veo
- Portuguese: véu
- → Romansch: vel
- → Romanian: văl
- → Spanish: velo
References
[edit]- “velum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “velum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- velum 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)
- velum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], 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
- (ambiguous) to put to sea: vela in altum dare (Liv. 25. 27)
- “velum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vēlum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 660
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