vel

Signification (Anglais)

1. or; and/or
2. even

Concepts

ou

ou bien

même

notamment

Synonymes

aut

seu

sive

sīve

veluti

velut

an

Traductions

oder

o

or

ou

o

oppure

ή

even

o

of

ακόμα

pari

Prononcé comme (IPA)

[ˈwɛɫ]

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.