vega

From Spanish vega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɪɡə/

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.

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.)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈveɪɡə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈviɡə/

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

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

• EVGA, gave

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbe.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈve.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈve.ɣa]

From Old Basque *bai-ko (“river plain, water meadow”); akin to Basque ibaiki (“riverbank”), from ibai (“river”).

vega f (plural vegues)

1. meadow

Possibly from the sense of "meadow" or possibly from vagar (“to wander”) with a change of vowel.

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.

• “vega”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vega”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “vega” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Likely from vega-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveː.ɣaː/

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• Hyphenation: ve‧ga
• Rhymes: -eːɣaː

vega m (plural vega's)

1. (informal) a vegetarian, a veggie

vega (not comparable)

1. veggie, vegetarian

From Old Norse vega (“to weigh”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛːɣa/

  Rhymes: -ɛːɣa

vega (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vó, third-person plural past indicative vógu, supine vegið)

1. to weigh [with accusative]
2. to consider, to ponder, to weigh [with accusative]
3. to slay [with accusative]

   Hetjan vó drekann.

   The hero slew the dragon.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋeːɡɑ/

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.

• vege (e-infinitive)

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)

• This is a split infinitive verb.

• avvega

• veg m
• vekt f

From the noun veg m (“way”).

• vege (e-infinitive)

vega (present tense vegar, past tense vega, past participle vega, passive infinitive vegast, present participle vegande, imperative vega/veg)

1. (ambitransitive) to make way

• This is a split infinitive verb.

• “vega” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• vage

vega

1. accusative/genitive plural of vegr

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).

vega

1. to weigh

• 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

From Proto-Germanic *wiganą (“to fight, to battle”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to fight”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (weihan).

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

• Icelandic: vega
• Danish: veje
• Old Swedish: vægha

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vega”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Inherited from Old Spanish vayca, from Old Basque *bai-ko (“river plain, water meadow”); akin to Basque ibaiki (“riverbank”), from ibai (“river”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɡa/ [ˈbe.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -eɡa
• Syllabification: ve‧ga

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

• Las Vegas
• Vega

• “vega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024