vegetare

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See also: vegetaré

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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:
      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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vegetāre.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) to vegetate

Conjugation

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Latin

Verb

vegetāre

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

Romanian

Etymology

From vegeta +‎ -re.

Noun

vegetare f (plural vegetări)

  1. vegetation

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vegetare vegetarea vegetări vegetările
genitive-dative vegetări vegetării vegetări vegetărilor
vocative vegetare, vegetareo vegetărilor

Spanish

Verb

vegetare

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