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vel.

or; and/or

3 characters1 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

conj[ˈwɛɫ]Classical-Latin[ˈvɛl]
  1. or; and/or

  2. even

Where this word comes from

From earlier *well, from Proto-Italic *wels (“you wish”), thus originally the second-person singular present active indicative form of volō (“to will, to wish”). The semantic development may have been helped by the fortuitous similarity to -ve.

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