different between vela vs vele

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?vi?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?vil?/
• Rhymes: -i?l?

Noun

vela

1. plural of velum

Anagrams

• Leva, Vale, Veal, avel, eval, lave, leva, vale, veal

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *v?la, from the plural of Latin v?lum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?be.la]

Noun

vela f (plural veles)

1. watch (supervision)
2. sleeplessness
3. sail (a piece of fabric attached to a boat)
4. sailing (sport)
5. candle (a light source)

Related terms

• velu

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan vela, from Vulgar Latin *v?la, from the plural of Latin v?lum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?v?.l?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?.l?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v?.la/

Noun

vela f (plural veles)

1. sail (on a boat)
2. sailing (sport)

Related terms

• vel

Faroese

Noun

vela

1. indefinite genitive plural of vel

Galician

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese vela, an early borrowing from Vulgar Latin *v?la, from the plural of Latin v?lum. Compare the inherited Old Portuguese vea.

Noun

vela f (plural velas)

1. a sail
2. sailing

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin vigilia, or back-formation from velar.

Noun

vela f (plural velas)

1. watch, vigil

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve.la/
• Hyphenation: vé?la
• Rhymes: -ela

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *v?la, from the plural of Latin v?lum. Doublet of voile.

Noun

vela f (plural vele)

1. (nautical) sail
2. (nautical, sports) sailing

Derived terms

• velista

Related terms

• velo

Descendants

• ? Romanian: vel?

Etymology 2

Verb

vela

1. inflection of velare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• lave, leva, vale

Further reading

• vela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Ladin

Noun

vela f (plural veles)

1. election

Latin

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?e.la/, [?u????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ve.la/, [?v??l?]

Noun

vela f (genitive velae); first declension

1. Gallic synonym of ?ri?
   • AD 77–79, C. Plinius Secundus (aut.), K.F.T. Mayhoff (ed.), Naturalis Historia (1906), bk XXII, ch. lxxv:

     irionem inter fruges sesamae similem esse diximus et a graecis erysimon vocari, galli velam appellant.

     When treating of the cereals, we have already stated that the irio, which strongly resembles sesame, is also called “erysimon” by the Greeks: the Gauls give it the name of “vela.” ? translation from: J. Bostock and H.T. Riley, The Natural History (1855), bk XXII, ch. lxxv

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• French: vélar

References

• vela in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,651/2
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “uela” on page 2,022/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of v?lum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?e?.la/, [?u?e???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ve.la/, [?v??l?]

Noun

v?la n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of v?lum

Etymology 3

A regularly conjugated form of v?l?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?e?.la?/, [?u?e???ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ve.la/, [?v??l?]

Verb

v?l?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of v?l?

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

vela n

1. definite plural of vele

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dù?da, applicative form of *-dùa.

Verb

-vela

1. to come, to originate [+locative = from]

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Piedmontese

Noun

vela f (plural vele)

1. sail

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vella (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?v?.l?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?v?.la/, /?v?.l?/
• Hyphenation: ve?la

Etymology 1

Back-formation from velar. Less likely from Latin vigilia.

Noun

vela f (plural velas)

1. candle

   Synonym: candeia

2. Clipping of vela de ignição.

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: weela

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese vela, an early borrowing from Latin v?la, plural of v?lum (“sail of a ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg (“to weave a web”). Displaced Old Portuguese vea.

Noun

vela f (plural velas)

1. (nautical) sail

2. (nautical, sports) sailing

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vela

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of velar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of velar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bela/, [?be.la]
• Hyphenation: ve?la

Etymology 1

From velar, or from Latin vigilia.

Noun

vela f (plural velas)

1. candle

   Synonyms: cirio, candela

2. wakefulness, sleeplessness

   Synonym: vigilia

3. vigil, watch

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

vela

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of velar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of velar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of velar.

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *v?la, from the plural of Latin v?lum. Compare English veil.

Noun

vela f (plural velas)

1. (nautical) sail
2. (nautical) sailing

Derived terms

• a toda vela

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Chamicuro: wela

Etymology 3

From ver.

Verb

vela

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ver. in pronominal form for singular feminine noun or person:

   Vela = see (or watch) her (a female); see (or watch) it (a feminine noun).

Anagrams

• lave
• leva
• vale

Further reading

• “vela” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dù?da, applicative form of *-dùa.

Verb

-vela

1. to come, to originate [+locative = from]
2. to appear

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hvela (obsolete)

Etymology

Back-formation from velig.

Verb

vela (present velar, preterite velade, supine velat, imperative vela)

1. to be undecided, to hesitate, to do nothing because one hasn't decided on which action to take

Usage notes

• The supine is the same as for vilja (“to want, to will”), which is the opposite of being undecided. Puns are made of this.

Conjugation

Anagrams

• elva, lave, leva, vale

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dù?da, applicative form of *-dùa.

Verb

-vela

1. to come, to originate [+locative = from]

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dù?da, applicative form of *-dùa.

Verb

-vela

1. to appear, to come into view
2. to happen, to occur
3. to come, to originate [+locative = from]

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “vela”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “vela (6.3)”

English

Noun

vele (plural veles)

1. Obsolete form of veil.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.3:

     Then forth he brought his snowy Florimele, / Whom Trompart had in keeping there beside, / Covered from peoples gazement with a vele […]

Anagrams

• EVEL, elev., elve, veel

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?l?]

Verb

vele

1. masculine singular present transgressive of velet

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?l?
• IPA^(key): /?ve?.l?/

Adjective

vele

1. many

Verb

vele

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of velen

See also

• veel

Anagrams

• leve, veel

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• ?vele
• véle

Etymology

Lexicalization of the otherwise unattested Proto-Hungarian ?el (“with”) +? -e (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?l?]
• Hyphenation: ve?le
• Rhymes: -l?

Pronoun

vele

1. with him/her

Declension

Derived terms

• veleszületett

See also

• -val/-vel
• Appendix:Hungarian pronouns

References

Further reading

• vele in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?ve.le/

Noun

vele f

1. plural of vela

Anagrams

• leve

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch filo, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

Pronoun

v?le

1. many, much [+genitive = of]

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: veel

Adverb

v?le

1. often
2. many times
3. very, strongly

Descendants

• Dutch: veel
• Limburgish: väöl

Further reading

• “vele (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “vele (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “vele (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

vele

1. Alternative form of veel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse véli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?e?l?/

Noun

vele n (definite singular velet, indefinite plural vele, definite plural vela)

1. a tail (especially of a bird)

Synonyms

• stjert

Further reading

• “vele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

vele

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of velar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of velar
3. third-person singular negative imperative of velar
4. third-person singular imperative of velar

Spanish

Verb

vele

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of velar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of velar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of velar.

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ìbéèdè.

Noun

vele 5 or 6 (plural mavele)

1. breast