vellere

vellere is a Latin form of vellus, meaning “fleece, wool”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

It can also be a form of vello, “pull, pluck, tear out”.

Found 49 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 4.108: ire iter aut castris audebit vellere signa.

Martial, Epigrammata 11.99.4: Vellere, cum lacrimis eximis et gemitu:

Tibullus, Elegiae 3.5.20: et modo nata mala uellere poma manu?

All forms of vellus (declension 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.