velox
Latin
Etymology
Related to volō (“I fly”) or from Proto-Italic *weksloks, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”) (whence vehō).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯eː.loːks/, [ˈu̯eːɫ̪oːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.loks/, [ˈvɛːloks]
Adjective
vēlōx (genitive vēlōcis, comparative vēlōcior, superlative vēlocissimus, adverb vēlōciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | vēlōx | vēlōcēs | vēlōcia | ||
Genitive | vēlōcis | vēlōcium | |||
Dative | vēlōcī | vēlōcibus | |||
Accusative | vēlōcem | vēlōx | vēlōcēs | vēlōcia | |
Ablative | vēlōcī | vēlōcibus | |||
Vocative | vēlōx | vēlōcēs | vēlōcia |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1118
- “velox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “velox”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- velox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.