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vega

See also: Vega, vegà, and веѓа

English

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Etymology 1

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From Spanish vega.

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Noun

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vega (plural vegas)

  1. (Latin America, Philippines) An open tract of ground; a plain, especially one which is moist and fertile, such as those used for growing tobacco.

Etymology 2

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An invented word perhaps chosen to begin with "v" (for "volatility") and to sound as if it could be a Greek letter (like the related parameters "delta", "gamma" etc.)

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vega (countable and uncountable, plural vegas)

  1. (finance) A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
    Synonyms: kappa, tau
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  • (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
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Etymology 1

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From Old Basque *bai-ko (“river plain, water meadow”); akin to Basque ibaiki (“riverbank”), from ibai (“river”).

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vega f (plural vegues)

  1. meadow

Etymology 2

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Possibly from the sense of "meadow" or possibly from vagar (“to wander”) with a change of vowel.

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vega f (plural vegues)

  1. a romp in the open air
  2. pleasure, especially in the act of eating
    • 1994, Carme Riera, Dins el darrer blau:
      Per contra, el faria caure d'una embranzida i un cop en terra el deixaria podrir fins que els cucs hi fessin una bona vega.
      On the contrary, he would make it fall at one bound and once on the ground he would let it rot until the worms made a nice feast of it.

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Etymology

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Likely from vega-.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈveː.ɣaː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ve‧ga
  • Rhymes: -eːɣaː

Noun

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vega m (plural vega's)

  1. (informal) a vegetarian, a veggie

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vega (not comparable)

  1. veggie, vegetarian

Declension

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Declension of vega
uninflected vega
inflected vega
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial vega
indefinite m./f. sing. vega
n. sing. vega
plural vega
definite vega
partitive vega's

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vega (“to weigh”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-.

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vega (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vó, third-person plural past indicative vógu, supine vegið)

  1. (with accusative) to weigh
  2. (with accusative) to consider, to ponder, to weigh
  3. (with accusative) to slay
    Hetjan vó drekann.
    The hero slew the dragon.

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse vega, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry; to weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti (“to be transporting”), from the root *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Cognates include English weigh.

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vega (present tense veg, past tense vog, supine vege, past participle vegen, present participle vegande, imperative veg)

  1. (transitive) to weigh (To determine the weight of an object)
  2. (intransitive) to weigh (To have a certain weight)
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  • This is a split infinitive verb.
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Etymology 2

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From the noun veg m (“way”).

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vega (present tense vegar, past tense vega, past participle vega, passive infinitive vegast, present participle vegande, imperative vega/veg)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to make way
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  • This is a split infinitive verb.

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Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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vega

  1. accusative/genitive plural of vegr

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-. Compare Old Saxon wegan, Old High German wegan, and Old English wegan, Old Frisian wega, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (wigan).

Verb

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vega

  1. to weigh
Conjugation
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Conjugation of vega — active (strong class 5)
infinitive vega
present participle vegandi
past participle veginn
indicative present past
1st-person singular veg vá
2nd-person singular vegr vátt
3rd-person singular vegr vá
1st-person plural vegum vágum
2nd-person plural vegið váguð
3rd-person plural vega vágu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular vega væga
2nd-person singular vegir vægir
3rd-person singular vegi vægi
1st-person plural vegim vægim
2nd-person plural vegið vægið
3rd-person plural vegi vægi
imperative present
2nd-person singular veg
1st-person plural vegum
2nd-person plural vegið
Conjugation of vega — mediopassive (strong class 5)
infinitive vegask
present participle vegandisk
past participle vegizk
indicative present past
1st-person singular vegumk vágumk
2nd-person singular vegsk vázk
3rd-person singular vegsk vásk
1st-person plural vegumsk vágumsk
2nd-person plural vegizk váguzk
3rd-person plural vegask vágusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular vegumk vægumk
2nd-person singular vegisk vægisk
3rd-person singular vegisk vægisk
1st-person plural vegimsk vægimsk
2nd-person plural vegizk vægizk
3rd-person plural vegisk vægisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular vegsk
1st-person plural vegumsk
2nd-person plural vegizk
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  • Icelandic: vega
  • Faroese: viga
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: vega; (dialectal) vågå, vaga
  • Old Swedish: vægha
  • Old Danish: wæghæ

Etymology 3

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From Proto-Germanic *wiganą (“to fight, to battle”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to fight”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (weihan).

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vega

  2. to fight
    • c. 1000 AD, inscription on the Sjörup Runestone
      […] saʀ : flu : aki : a[t :] ub:sal(u)m : an : ua : maþ : an : uabn : a(f)þi
      […] Sāʀ flō ęigi at Upsalum, ęn wā męð han wāpn hafði.
      […] He did not flee at Uppsala, but fought as long as he had a weapon.
  3. to slay, to kill
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Conjugation of vega — active (strong class 1)
infinitive vega
present participle vegandi
past participle veginn
indicative present past
1st-person singular veg vá
2nd-person singular vegr vátt
3rd-person singular vegr vá
1st-person plural vegum vágum
2nd-person plural vegið váguð
3rd-person plural vega vágu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular vega væga
2nd-person singular vegir vægir
3rd-person singular vegi vægi
1st-person plural vegim vægim
2nd-person plural vegið vægið
3rd-person plural vegi vægi
imperative present
2nd-person singular veg
1st-person plural vegum
2nd-person plural vegið
Conjugation of vega — mediopassive (strong class 1)
infinitive vegask
present participle vegandisk
past participle vegizk
indicative present past
1st-person singular vegumk vágumk
2nd-person singular vegsk vázk
3rd-person singular vegsk vásk
1st-person plural vegumsk vágumsk
2nd-person plural vegizk váguzk
3rd-person plural vegask vágusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular vegumk vægumk
2nd-person singular vegisk vægisk
3rd-person singular vegisk vægisk
1st-person plural vegimsk vægimsk
2nd-person plural vegizk vægizk
3rd-person plural vegisk vægisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular vegsk
1st-person plural vegumsk
2nd-person plural vegizk
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References

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  • “vega”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish vayca, from Old Basque *bai-ko (“river plain, water meadow”); akin to Basque ibaiki (“riverbank”), from ibai (“river”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbeɡa/ [ˈbe.ɣ̞a]
  • Rhymes: -eɡa
  • Syllabification: ve‧ga

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vega f (plural vegas)

  1. meadow
  2. fertile lowland
  3. grassy plain
  4. valley (the fertile lowlands surrounding a river)
  5. alluvial plain
  6. (Caribbean) tobacco plantation

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