Vejovis

• Vejove

From Latin Vējovis, a later spelling of Vēiovis, from Old Latin Vēdiovis, from vē + Diovis from Proto-Italic *djous, *djowes, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws.

IPA^(key): /ˈve.joʊ.vɪs/, /ˈvɛ.d͡ʒoʊ.vɪs/

Vejovis

1. (Roman mythology) an ancient Italic Roman deity of Etruscan origin considered to be an underworld counterpart of Jupiter; literally “Little Jupiter”, “Anti-Jove”

• Jove
• Jupiter

• Vēiovis
• Vēdiovis, Vēdiiovis
• Vēdīus
• Vēive

vē- (“not, anti-”) +‎ Jovis (“Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous, *djowes (“day, sky; Jove”) from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“sky god”, literally “the bright one”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈweː.jo.wis/, [ˈweː.jɔ.wɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.jo.vis/, [ˈvɛː.jɔ.vis]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /ˈβeː.jo.βis/, [ˈbe.jo.βes]

Vējovis m sg (genitive Vējovis); third declension

1. (religion) Alternative spelling of Vēiovis (“Vejove, an old Italic Roman god; literally Anti-Jove”)

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

• Diovis, Iovis (“Jove”)

• Vejovis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Vejovis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette