velut

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

vel +‎ ut

Adverb

velut (not comparable)

  1. even as, as, just as, like, as if
    Synonyms: sīcut, ut, tamquam, quasi
    • 1230, “O Fortuna”, in Carmina Burana:
      O fortuna uelud luna ſtatu uariabiliſ...
      Oh Fortune, like the Moon of variable state...
  2. namely, that is to say, to be specific
    re contrahitur obligatio velut mutui datione
    an obligation contracted by (transferring) the thing, namely, by giving it in mutuum
    Cf. On the so-called Real Contract in the Institutes of Gaius

References
  • “velut”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “velut”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • velut in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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