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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

  1. veil; cover, screen, shade

Ancestry of “velo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchvoileveil; sail; sailing
2Old Frenchvoilesail
3Vulgar Latinvelasynonym of īriō; nominative/accusative/vocative...
4Latinvēlum—
5Proto-Italic*wekslom—

Words derived from “velo”

  • desvelizar
  • velizar
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