vexo

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Verb

vexo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vexar

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vejo, from Latin videō. Compare Portuguese vejo, and Spanish veo.

Pronunciation

Verb

vexo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ver
  2. first-person singular present indicative of vexar

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷegs-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷog- (to shake, swing). Cognate with Old English cweccan (to shake, swing, move, vibrate; shake off, give up). More at quake.

Pronunciation

Verb

vexō (present infinitive vexāre, perfect active vexāvī, supine vexātum); first conjugation

  1. to shake or jolt violently
  2. to harass, annoy
  3. to vex, trouble (strong term, involving violence)
  4. to persecute

Conjugation

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • vexo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vexo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vexo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
    • the Furies harass and torment some one: Furiae agitant et vexant aliquem
    • to damage the state: rem publicam vexare

Portuguese

Verb

vexo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vexar