vel

Significat (Anglès)

1. or; and/or
2. even

Conceptes

o

o bé

Sinònims

aut

seu

sive

sīve

veluti

velut

an

Traduccions

o

oder

ou

or

ou

o

ή

oppure

even

of

ακόμα

pari

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

[ˈwɛɫ]

Etimologia (Anglès)

From earlier *well, from *wels, from *welsi (“you wish”), thus originally the second-person singular present active indicative form of volō (“I will, I wish”). The semantic development may have been helped by the fortuitous similarity to -ve.