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Originally Posted by 1,6 HF I thought this thread had died a merciful death a couple of weeks ago. Please don't take this the wrong way, Phil, but what words in other languages seem to mean to you may or may not matter much; what words look like they might mean in another language and what they actually do mean are often quite different. To pick only the first example that comes to mind, the Italian word accidente seems like it ought to mean 'accident', but it doesn't even come close; incidente means 'accident', while accidente loosely translates as 'damn!'. In this case, veloce (adj. or adv.) is certainly related to velocità (n.), which means 'velocity' or 'speed'. Veloce is indeed an adjective in the context of Veloce Spider or Gran Turismo Veloce, which means that 'speedy' is fine, if you happen to like that word. Personally, 'speedy' always make me think of an old Alka Seltzer ad, and I tend to use 'fast' rather than 'speedy' when describing cars, but if you prefer 'speedy' to 'fast', that's just fine. Other than personal preference, though, I wouldn't want to argue that either of the two is any 'closer' to veloce than the other. YMMV.