vega

See also: Vega, vegà, and веѓа

English

Etymology 1

From Spanish vega.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪɡə/

Noun

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

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

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Noun

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

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Derived terms

• vega convexity

 

Anagrams

• EVGA, gave

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbe.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈve.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈve.ɣa]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

vega f (plural vegues)

1. meadow

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Further reading

• “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

Etymology

Likely from vega-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveː.ɣaː/

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• Hyphenation: ve‧ga
• Rhymes: -eːɣaː

Noun

vega m (plural vega's)

1. (informal) A vegetarian, a veggie.

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛːɣa/

  Rhymes: -ɛːɣa

Verb

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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʋeːɡɑ/

Etymology 1

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

• vege (e-infinitive)

Verb

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)

Usage notes

• This is a split infinitive verb.

Derived terms

• avvega

Related terms

• veg m
• vekt f

Etymology 2

From the noun veg m (“way”).

Alternative forms

• vege (e-infinitive)

Verb

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

Usage notes

• This is a split infinitive verb.

References

• “vega” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• vage

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Noun

vega

1. accusative/genitive plural of vegr

Etymology 2

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

vega

1. to weigh

Conjugation

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

Descendants

• Icelandic: vega
• Faroese: viga
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vega; (dialectal) vågå, vaga
  • >? Russenorsk: vegom
• Old Swedish: vægha
  • Swedish: väga
• Old Danish: wæghæ
  • Danish: veje
    • Norwegian Bokmål: veie

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

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

Descendants

• Icelandic: vega
• Old Swedish: vægha

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

See also

• Las Vegas
• Vega

Further reading

• “vega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014