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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la vēlum}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈweː.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvɛː.lo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''vēlō''' (present infinitive vēlāre, perfect active vēlāvī, supine vēlātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[vēlum]] “covering, sail” with the verb suffix [[-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of covering the head for a ritual.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to cover, wrap, clothe the body, as Livy's ''vēlātus togā'' “wrapped in his toga”, and in Ovid to conceal.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to cover the head for a ritual, as Cicero's ''capite vēlātō'', and to adorn buildings for a ceremony, as in Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant to cover over, of growth with fur or feathers, of things to conceal, and in Virgil ''vēlātus'' fitted with sails.^(OLD 2012) Ovid also uses it figuratively of veiling abstract things.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to cover, veil, hide, conceal, blindfold.^(Stelten 1995) Its compound ''revēlāre'' “to unveil” is the source of [[en|reveal]].^(Etymonline) It survives in Italian ''velare'' and French ''voiler''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of ritual covering.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero has ''capite vēlātō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of ships fitted with sails.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of concealing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To cover, clothe, wrap; to conceal.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To cover with fur or feathers.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To cover the head for a ritual; to adorn for a ceremony.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To cover over, ''vēlātus'', fitted with sails.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|veil]], hide.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[revēlō]]
+ * [[vēlāmen]]
+ * [[vēlātiō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[vēlum]]
+ * [[en|veil]]
+ * [[en|reveal]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}