See also: vegetaré

English

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Etymology

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Attested from the 19th century (see quotation below). Likely a back-formation from vegetarian.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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vegetare (third-person singular simple present vegetares, present participle vegetaring, simple past and past participle vegetared)

  1. (rare) To adhere to a vegetarian diet; to eat vegetables and not meat.
    • 1898, Josiah Oldfield, “The Dietary of the Twentieth Century”, in The New Century Review, page 308:
      The dietary of the coming century shall be in harmony with its aspirations and the human race will vegetare.
    • 1914 December, John R. Rodgers, “Indigestion and other topics”, in The Green Book Magazine, page 1044:
      No, I don’t think vegetaring will help you. Of course you have quit coffee?
    • 2006, Solveig S, “Being Vegetarian in South America....Easy or Difficult?”, in Travellers point[1]:
      What you have to realize is that brazilians in general do not understand the concept vegetaring and thus would include chicken, fish and even small amounts of beef in their definition of a vegetarian dish.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:vegetare.

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin vegetāre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈta.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ve‧ge‧tà‧re

Verb

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vegetàre (first-person singular present vègeto or végeto[1], first-person singular past historic vegetài, past participle vegetàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to vegetate [auxiliary avere]

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References

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  1. ^ vegeto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

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Verb

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vegetāre

  1. inflection of vegetō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Romanian

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Etymology

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From vegeta +‎ -re.

Noun

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vegetare f (plural vegetări)

  1. vegetation

Declension

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Spanish

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Verb

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vegetare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of vegetar