Where does “velo” come from?
velo (Ido) comes from French voile, from Old French voile, from Vulgar Latin vela, from Latin vēlum, from Proto-Italic *wekslom.
velo (Ido): veil; cover, screen, shade
Definitions
- veil; cover, screen, shade
Ancestry of “velo”, step by step
velo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French voile
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | voile | veil; sail; sailing |
| 2 | Old French | voile | sail |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | vela | synonym of īriō; nominative/accusative/vocative... |
| 4 | Latin | vēlum | a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *wekslom | — |
via English veil
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | veil | Something hung up or spread out to hide or... |
| 2 | Middle English | veil | — |
| 3 | Latin | velum | the sail of a ship; a cloth, curtain, veil,... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | weǵʰ- | to bring; to transport |
Words derived from “velo”