vel

ve-l Vorlage:lat. „oder, und/oder“,

Anm. KF: vwdt. mit wahl??

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯el/, [u̯ɛɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vel/, [vɛl]

Conjunction

vel

1. or; and/or [ quotations ▼]
2. even

Derived terms

• velut

Descendants

• Translingual: ∨ (symbol of disjunction)
• English: vel sim., vel

See also

• aut