vega

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

Anagrams

• EVGA, gave

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

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

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

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

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/
• 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