vee

See also: vêe and Vee

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /viː/

• Audio (AU)

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• Homophone: ve
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

vee (plural vees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.
2. Something with the shape of the letter V.
   • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf:

     One of [the men] took up both spaces on the pink sofa, while the other two drew up chairs from a nearby table and squeezed into them. The armrests were forced out into a tired vee, to the accompaniment of an uneasy creaking sound.

   • 2013, Nancy Springer, We Don't Know Why

     The river leapt and rippled like a lizard. Geese flew over in a vee, crying to the sky.

   • 2019 December 4, Philip Haigh, “Trains, tickets and tests: LNER outlines its targets”, in Rail, page 62:

     York's new railway offices are rather smart, tucked into the vee of York South Junction where the freight lines diverge to avoid the station.

3. (cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played.
4. A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.

Derived terms

• teevee
• veep

Translations

name of the letter V, v

• Arabic: ڤِي‎ m (vī) (rare, using a Kurdish letter), وِي‎ m (wī), فِي‎ (ar) m (fī)
• Catalan: ve (ca) f, ve baixa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Esperanto: vo (eo)
• Faroese: ve n
• Finnish: vee (fi)
• French: vé (fr) m
• Galician: uve (gl) m
• German: Vau n
• Greek: βι n (vi)
• Hawaiian: wī
• Hindi: वी (vī)
• Icelandic: vaff

• Ido: ve (io)
• Irish: vé
• Japanese: ヴィー (vī), ヴイ (vui), ブイ (bui)
• Korean: 브이 (beu'i)
• Latin: ū (la)
• Malay: vi (ms)
• Marathi: व्ही (vhī)
• Occitan: ve f
• Portuguese: vê (pt) m
• Russian: ви (ru) n (vi) (English), вэ (ru) n (vɛ)
• Spanish: uve (es) f
• Thai: วี (th) (wee)
• Turkish: ve (tr)
• Vietnamese: vê (vi), vờ (vi)
• Welsh: fi f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} vu m or f

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Verb

vee (third-person singular simple present vees, present participle veeing, simple past and past participle veed)

1. To form something into a "v" shape, particularly as part of a welding, machining, or manufacturing process.
   • 1925, Oxweld Acetylene Company, The Oxwelder's Manual: Instructions for Welding and Cutting, p. 166:

     As the metal melts it is veed out with the paddle for about 2 in.

   • 2005, Richard Finch, Performance Welding Handbook, p. 83:

     Use a die grinder to vee out the crack or to remove pounded-out metal where the valve seat came loose.

Anagrams

• EVE, EeV, Eve, eve

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vêe, from Old Dutch fē, from Proto-West Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veː/

• audio

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• Hyphenation: vee
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

vee n (uncountable)

1. (collective) livestock, cattle

Derived terms

• dansvee
• fokvee
• grootvee
• hoornvee
• kiesvee
• klapvee
• kleinvee
• melkvee
• pluimvee
• rundvee
• scharrelvee
• slachtvee
• stemvee
• trekvee
• veeboer
• veehouder
• veestapel
• veesterfte
• veeziekte
• vleesvee
• zoogvee
• zuivelvee

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vee
• Negerhollands: vee

Further reading

• “vee” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

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Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

vee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

Etymology 2

Noun

vee

1. genitive singular of vesi

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Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish ve (“name of the letter V”). Similar names are also found in other European languages, such as English vee, French vé and Latvian vē. It is ultimately formed by analogy with Latin letter names such as bē for B, but it is unknown in which this language took place.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeː/, [ˈʋe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification: vee

Noun

vee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

Declension

Inflection of vee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		vee	veet
genitive		veen	veiden veitten
partitive		veetä	veitä
illative		veehen	veihin
		singular	plural
nominative		vee	veet
accusative	nom.	vee	veet
	gen.	veen
genitive		veen	veiden veitten
partitive		veetä	veitä
inessive		veessä	veissä
elative		veestä	veistä
illative		veehen	veihin
adessive		veellä	veillä
ablative		veeltä	veiltä
allative		veelle	veille
essive		veenä	veinä
translative		veeksi	veiksi
instructive		—	vein
abessive		veettä	veittä
comitative		—	veineen

Possessive forms of vee (type maa)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	veeni	veemme
2nd person	veesi	veenne
3rd person	veensä

Compounds

• kaksoisvee
• tuplavee

Anagrams

• eve

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch fē, from Proto-West Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”).

Noun

vêe f or n

1. livestock (collectively)
2. animal of livestock

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• vie

Descendants

• Dutch: vee
  • Afrikaans: vee
  • Negerhollands: vee
• Limburgish: vieë, vieëch

Further reading

• “vee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Võro

Noun

vee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• kaksisvee