vexo

vexo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vexar

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

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈʃʊ/

vexo

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

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛk.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛk.so]

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)

   Aliīs omnīnō cūrīs vexābātur.

   He had completely different troubles.

4. to persecute

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

• vexātiō

• “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^[1], 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
    

vexo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vexar