🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

velocità

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ve-lo-ci-tà

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Speed/spiːd/
nounverbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #450 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'auto viaggiava a grande velocità."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The rate at which someone or something is able to move or operate.

    "The car was traveling at a high speed on the highway."
As verb
  1. 1

    To move quickly or at a high speed, often exceeding a legal or safe limit.

    "He was caught speeding through the residential neighborhood."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'spēd', meaning 'success, prosperity, quickness', stemming from Proto-Germanic '*spōdiz' (success, speed). Over centuries, the meaning shifted from general success and proficiency primarily to physical swiftness and rate of motion.

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