to want even (particle) 1 realization
NEW Realization 1
type Derivation
language Latin
lexeme 1 volo
lexeme 2 vel
meaning 1 to want
direction
meaning 2 even (conj)

vel sapientissimus potest errare

reference Dvoreckij 1976: 1060 Lewis, Short Glare: 2021–2022
comment from Proto-Italic *wels 'you wish', thus originally the second-person singular present active indicative form of volō. The semantic development may have been helped by the fortuitous similarity to -ve 'or'.