English
velarium
Velarium comes from Latin vēlārium ‘awning’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *wekslom.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wekslomreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēlum‘a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēlārium‘awning’
- Englishearliest quotation 2007velarium
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wekslomreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēlum‘a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEvēlārium‘awning’
- Englishearliest quotation 2007velarium
Earliest quotation: 2007, David Clay Large, Berlin: “In accordance with the epochal significance of the occasion,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to bring’
way, always, via, vehicle, wave, halfway, weigh, wagon, wee, vector, vogue, wedge, vein, headway, wag, wonky, eunuch, venous, vex, wey, waw, wain, vena, invective, 40 more
through Latin vēlum ‘a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning’
Today it means
noun The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *wekslom / velarium