Home › Words › V › velitevelitevelite means A type of Roman infantryman who worked as a skirmisher.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, velite ranks #2,613 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyBorrowed from Latin vēlitēs, plural of vēles.nounA type of Roman infantryman who worked as a skirmisher.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).