vel
Pronunciation: [ˈwɛɫ]
“vel” is a Latin word. Its 2 meanings in English:
conjunction
- or; and/or
- even
Etymology
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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