veu

Inherited from Old Catalan veu, from older vou (via dissimilation), from Latin vōcem. Cf. the evolution of creu (“cross”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛw]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvəw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvew]

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veu f (plural veus)

1. voice
2. word, term

• portaveu

Inherited from Latin vicem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛw]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvəw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvew]

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veu f (plural veus)

1. (archaic) time, occasion
2. (archaic, in the plural) place, stead

• portantveus

• vegada

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛw]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvəw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvew]

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veu

1. third-person singular present/preterite indicative of veure

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• véu (pre-2016)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbew]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvew]

veu

1. (literary, Valencia) third-person singular present/preterite indicative of veure

• “veu”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “veu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

veu

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of vir

veu

1. second/third-person singular present indicative of voéi

• IPA^(key): /vyː/

veu

1. past participle of veoir

veu

1. given, in light of
   • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 8:

     il ne pouvoit autrement eviter nostre importunité, veu la condition de ses enfans

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1600, La plaisante, et ioyevse histoyre du grand geant Gargantua, page 56:

     Quoy ? diſt Grandgoſier, mon petit couillon as tu prins au pot ? veu que tu rimes deſia ?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• French: vu

• IPA^(key): /vəˈy/

veu

1. past participle of veoir