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velum

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See also: vélum and vellum

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin vēlum (a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil). Doublet of veil.

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Noun

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velum (plural vela or velums)

  1. a thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain, such as:
    1. (anatomy) the soft palate
    2. (botany) a thin membrane partially covering the cluster of sporangia near the leaf base in quillworts and their extinct relatives
    3. (mycology) a veil-like membrane of immature mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is torn by growth, to reveal the gills
    4. (malacology) a locomotory and feeding organ provided with cilia found in the larval stage of bivalves
    5. (zoology) a annular membrane, typically bordering a cavity, especially in certain molluscs, medusae, and other invertebrates
    6. a delicate membrane found on certain protists
  2. (meteorology) an accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance; normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus

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Faroese

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Noun

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velum

  1. indefinite dative plural of vel

French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin velum (veil, sail).

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Noun

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velum m (plural velums)

  1. velum

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Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛlʊm]
  • Hyphenation: vè‧lum

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin vēlum.

Noun

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vèlum (uncountable)

  1. (anatomy, linguistics) velum: the soft palate.
  2. veil: a covering for a person or thing; as, a caul.

Etymology 2

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From English vellum, from Old French velin (Modern French vélin), from Latin vitulinus (of a calf).

Noun

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vèlum (uncountable)

  1. vellum: a type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf.

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Latin

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vēla rubra (red sails)
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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *wekslom (note the Latin term's diminutive form vēxillum (as in pālus > pāxillus), which lends credence to this reconstruction), with two competing theories:

  • Others refer it to *weǵʰ- (to ride), thus "that which propels"; in this case, cognate with Proto-Slavic *veslo (oar). This is semantically less attractive than the above theory.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vēlum n (genitive vēlī); second declension

  1. a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
    • a. 224, Ulpiānus, Dīgesta seu Pandectae[1], volume XXX, section 41.10:
      Sed sī cancellī sint vel vēla, lēgārī poterunt, nōn tamen fistulae vel castellī.
      But while bar-doors or their veils can be legated, not so water-pipes or water-basins.
  2. (usually in the plural) the sail of a ship
  1. (anatomy) the soft palate
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Inflection

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative vēlum vēla
genitive vēlī vēlōrum
dative vēlō vēlīs
accusative vēlum vēla
ablative vēlō vēlīs
vocative vēlum vēla

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References

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  • velum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • velum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • velum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • velum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to put to sea: vela in altum dare (Liv. 25. 27)
    • (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela facere, pandere
    • (ambiguous) to set the sails: vela dare
    • (ambiguous) to furl the sails: vela contrahere (also metaph.)
    • (ambiguous) sails and rigging: vela armamentaque
  • velum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vēlum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 660