vel

Betekenis (Engels)

1. or; and/or
2. even

Concepten

of

Synoniemen

aut

seu

sive

sīve

veluti

velut

an

Vertalingen

o

or

oder

ou

ou

o

ή

even

o

oppure

ακόμα

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

[ˈwɛɫ]

Etymologie (Engels)

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.