Oxford Latin Dictionary
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vel or
vel is a Latin Conjunction that primarily means or.
Definitions for vel
Wheelock's Latin
Conjunction
- 1
or (an optional alternative)
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Particle
- 1
(in commands, etc., indicating an option open to the addressee) If you wish; (preceding each of two or more options) if you wish.. or if you prefer; (also ommited before first option). (b) (in references to one's own future conduct) if you like.
- 2
(introducing alternatives, in which mutual exclusiveness is not normally emphasized, nor other possibilities excluded) Either ..or(..or). (b) (w. ommission of uel before the first alternative). (c) ~enim (empasizing a further alternative or alternatives) or indeed. (d) (w. other disjunctives introducing parallel cls., etc.).
- 3
(introducing a more correct or precise expression) Or rather; ~dicam? or shall I say? (b) (w. qualifying cl.) or (in such and such circumstances).
- 4
(in offering a suggestion) Possibly, perhaps; also. (b) for instance, now.
- 5
(introducing what might be thought an extreme or unlikely possibility) Even, one might go so far as to say. (b) (w. compar. adj. or adv.). (c) (w. superl.) quite, altogether.
Sentences with vel
Latin to English
Et sumus et nos esse novimus et id esse et nosse diligimus.... Sine ullla phantasiarum vel phantasmatum imaginatione ludificatoria, mihi esse me, idque nosse et amare certissimum est. [De civitate dei, XI, 26]Compare We are, and we know that we are, and we love to be and to know that we are.... Without any illusion of image, fancy, or phantasm, I am certain that I am, that I know that I am, and that I love to be and to know. [Tr. Walsh, Zema, Monahan, and Honan]
Nihil est ... quod studio et benevolentia vel amore potius effici non potest.Compare Nothing is ... impossible for devotion and kindness or rather love.
Solum ut inter ista vel certum sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius.Compare Among these things but one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that nothing is more pitiable or more presumptuous than man.
Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro; non tamen irritum, quodcumque retro est, efficiet, neque diffinget infectumque reddet, quod fugies semel hora vixit."Compare He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Sire may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine; he will not undo aught that is left behind me, nor change or make as though it had not been aught that the hour, fast as it flies, has once brought."
Inexcusabilis est omnis peccator vel reatu originis vel additamento etiam propriae voluntatis, sive qui novit sive qui ignorat, sive qui iudicat sive qui non iudicat; quia et ipsa ignorantia in iis, qui intelligere noluerunt, sine dubitatione peccatum est, in iis autem qui non potuerunt, poena peccati.Compare Every sinner is inexcusable, whether because of the original sin or because of an additional offense due to his own will, whether he knows or does not know it, whether he condemns or does not condemn it; because in those unwilling to understand ignorance itself is beyond doubt a sin, and in those unable to understand, this inability is the penalty of sin.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 489.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 2021.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "vel (conj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/vel.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 489.on page 489
