Noun: vellus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | vellus |
| Plural | vellera |
Genitive
| Singular | velleris |
| Plural | vellerum |
Dative
| Singular | vellerī |
| Plural | velleribus |
Accusative
| Singular | vellus |
| Plural | vellera |
Ablative
| Singular | vellere |
| Plural | velleribus |
Vocative
| Singular | vellus |
| Plural | vellera |
Sample Sentences
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‘nēve minus multōs redigam, quam māne fuērunt, (‘‘And may I never drive back fewer [sheep] than there were in the morning,
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and may I never groan as I bring back hides snatched from the wolf.’’
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(A shepherd’s prayer to Pales.)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.765–766]
Nouns inflected like vellus
scelus,
vīscus,
subgenus,
quadrilatus,
genus,
latus,
holus,
fūnus,
mūnus,
ulcus,
sīdus,
rūdus,
foedus,
glomus,
pondus,
vulnus,
vellus,
volnus,
onus,
olus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool”), and connected to Latin lāna (“wool”) and Gaulish vlana. This is favored by Meiser, but rejected by Schrijver and De Vaan, the latter who instead proposes the word as a derivative of vellō (“to pluck out”). See: Latin Nouns '
lāna'.
Verbs referencing "vellus"
English Nouns
wild, Italian Nouns
vello, English Nouns
vell, Spanish Nouns
vellón, Catalan Nouns
velló, Ancient Greek Nouns
λῶμα, Ancient Greek Nouns
λάχνη, Galician Nouns
vélaro.
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