vegetal

See also: végétal and vegetál

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vegetālis, from vegetō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛdʒɨtl̩/
• (General American) enPR: vĕjʹĭ-tl, IPA^(key): /ˈvɛdʒɪ̈tl̩/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒɪtəl
• Hyphenation UK: ve‧ge‧tal, US: veg‧e‧tal

Adjective

vegetal (comparative more vegetal, superlative most vegetal)

1. (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:

     Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].

2. Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
   • 2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241:

     The Computer Center is muffled and dim, warm with whiffs of sourness, of body odor, and of the vegetal smells of dirt embedded in clothes that were advancing in the direction of compost.

3. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

Derived terms

• vegetally
• vegetal pole
• vegetaline

Translations

pertaining to vegetables or plants

• Dutch: plantaardig (nl), vegetaal (nl)
• Esperanto: vegetala
• Finnish: kasvillinen (fi), kasvi-, kasvis-
• French: végétal (fr) m

• Georgian: მცენარეული (mcenareuli), მცენარეთა (mcenareta)
• German: pflanzlich (de)
• Portuguese: vegetal (pt) m or f
• Spanish: vegetal (es)

Noun

vegetal (plural vegetals)

1. (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.

Anagrams

• gavelet

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /və.ʒəˈtal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bə.ʒəˈtal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈtal/

Adjective

vegetal (masculine and feminine plural vegetals)

1. relating to plants or vegetables

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Interlingua

Adjective

vegetal (not comparable)

1. vegetal, vegetable

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ved͡ʒeˈtal/

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetaj)

1. vegetable

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ve.ʒeˈtaw/, [ve.ʒeˈtaʊ̯]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /vɨ.ʒɨˈtal/, [vɨ.ʒɨˈtaɫ]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: ve‧ge‧tal

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetais)

1. vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
2. (figuratively) vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)

Synonyms

• (edible material derived from a plant):, verdura f, planta f, erva f, hortaliça f

Adjective

vegetal m or f (plural vegetais, comparable)

1. Relative to plants and vegetables

   Célula vegetal.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French végétal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈtal/

Adjective

vegetal m or n (feminine singular vegetală, masculine plural vegetali, feminine and neuter plural vegetale)

1. vegetal, vegetable

Declension

Declension of vegetal

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	vegetal		vegetală	vegetali	vegetale
	definite	vegetalul		vegetala	vegetalii	vegetalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	vegetal		vegetale	vegetali	vegetale
	definite	vegetalului		vegetalei	vegetalilor	vegetalelor

Further reading

• vegetal in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bexeˈtal/, [be.xeˈt̪al]
• Hyphenation: ve‧ge‧tal

Adjective

vegetal (plural vegetales)

1. vegetal

Derived terms

• aceite vegetal

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetales)

1. vegetable

   Synonym: verdura

Further reading

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