vexo

vexo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vexar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vejo, from Latin videō. Compare Portuguese vejo, and Spanish veo.

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈʃʊ/

vexo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ver
2. first-person singular present indicative of vexar

• uexō

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷegs-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷog- (“to shake, swing”). Cognate with Old English cweccan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate; shake off, give up”). More at quake.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ek.soː/, [ˈu̯ɛks̠oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvek.so/, [ˈvɛkso]

vexō (present infinitive vexāre, perfect active vexāvī, supine vexātum); first conjugation

1. to shake or jolt violently
2. to harass, annoy
3. to vex, trouble (strong term, involving violence)
4. to persecute

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• vexātiō

• “vexo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vexo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vexo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
    
  • the Furies harass and torment some one: Furiae agitant et vexant aliquem
    
  • to damage the state: rem publicam vexare
    

vexo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vexar