Veal

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Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French ve(e)l, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus ‘calf’.


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From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus(“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.


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veal (n.)

late 14c., "calf meat as food," from Anglo-French vel, Old French veel "a calf" (12c., Modern French veau), earlier vedel, from Latin vitellus "a little calf," diminutive of vitulus "calf," perhaps originally "yearling," if related, as some think, to Sanskrit vatsah "calf," literally "yearling;" Gothic wiþrus, Old English weðer (see wether; also see veteran).