vel

Meaning

  1. or; and/or
  2. even

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈwɛɫ]
Etymology

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.

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