vellus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool”) (compare Greek λῶμα (lôma), Welsh gwlân, English wool, Lithuanian vìlna, Russian волна (volna)), Latin lāna).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯el.lus/, [ˈu̯ɛlːʲʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvel.lus/, [ˈvɛlːus]
Noun
vellus n (genitive velleris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vellus | vellera |
Genitive | velleris | vellerum |
Dative | vellerī | velleribus |
Accusative | vellus | vellera |
Ablative | vellere | velleribus |
Vocative | vellus | vellera |
Synonyms
- (wool): lāna
Descendants
References
- “vellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vellus 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)
- vellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.