vega
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vega (plural vegas)
- (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
[edit]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.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vega (countable and uncountable, plural vegas)
- (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.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Basque *bai-ko (“river plain, water meadow”); akin to Basque ibaiki (“riverbank”), from ibai (“river”).
Noun
[edit]vega f (plural vegues)
Etymology 2
[edit]Possibly from the sense of "meadow" or possibly from vagar (“to wander”) with a change of vowel.
Noun
[edit]vega f (plural vegues)
- a romp in the open air
- 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.
Further reading
[edit]- “vega” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vega”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “vega” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely from vega-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vega m (plural vega's)
- (informal) a vegetarian, a veggie
Adjective
[edit]vega (not comparable)
Declension
[edit]Declension of vega | ||||
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse vega (“to weigh”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]vega (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vó, third-person plural past indicative vógu, supine vegið)
- to weigh [with accusative]
- to consider, to ponder, to weigh [with accusative]
- to slay [with accusative]
- Hetjan vó drekann.
- The hero slew the dragon.
Derived terms
[edit]- vega salt
- vega sig upp (“to pull oneself up”)
- vega upp á móti (“to counterbalance something, to compensate for something”)
- vega þungt (“to carry a lot of weight”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Alternative forms
[edit]- vege (e-infinitive)
Verb
[edit]vega (present tense veg, past tense vog, supine vege, past participle vegen, present participle vegande, imperative veg)
- (transitive) to weigh (To determine the weight of an object)
- (intransitive) to weigh (To have a certain weight)
Usage notes
[edit]- This is a split infinitive verb.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From the noun veg m (“way”).
Alternative forms
[edit]- vege (e-infinitive)
Verb
[edit]vega (present tense vegar, past tense vega, past participle vega, passive infinitive vegast, present participle vegande, imperative vega/veg)
- (transitive, intransitive) to make way
Usage notes
[edit]- This is a split infinitive verb.
References
[edit]- “vega” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Old Norse
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]vega
Etymology 2
[edit]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
[edit]vega
- to weigh
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | vega | |
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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 |
infinitive | vegask | |
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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 |
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: vega
- Faroese: viga
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vega; (dialectal) vågå, vaga
- >? Russenorsk: vegom
- Old Swedish: vægha
- Swedish: väga
- Old Danish: wæghæ
Etymology 3
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *wiganą (“to fight, to battle”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to fight”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (weihan).
Verb
[edit]vega
- 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.
- c. 1000 AD, inscription on the Sjörup Runestone
- to slay, to kill
Conjugation
[edit]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 |
infinitive | vegask | |
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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 |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “vega”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish vayca, from Old Basque *bai-ko (“river plain, water meadow”); akin to Basque ibaiki (“riverbank”), from ibai (“river”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vega f (plural vegas)
- meadow
- fertile lowland
- grassy plain
- valley (the fertile lowlands surrounding a river)
- alluvial plain
- (Caribbean) tobacco plantation
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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