velis

velis is a Latin form of volo, meaning “want, wish, be willing”.

It can also be a form of velum, “sail; covering”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun.

Found 531 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.13.6: pelles pro velis alutaeque tenuiter confectae, [hae] sive propter inopiam lini atque eius usus inscientiam, sive eo, quod est …

Suetonius, Caligula 26.5: gladiatorio munere reductis interdum flagrantissimo sole uelis emitti quemquam uetabat, remotoque ordinario apparatu tabidas feras, uilissimos senioque confectos gladiatore …

Plautus, Poenulus 1.2.244: olént, salsa súnt, tangere út non velís.

All forms of volo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.