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4-letter words (2 found)

GAVE,VEGA,

3-letter words (6 found)

AGE,AVE,GAE,VAE,VAG,VEG,

2-letter words (3 found)

AE,AG,EA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from vega according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of vega

vega evga vgea gvea egva geva veag evag vaeg aveg eavg aevg vgae gvae vage avge gave agve egav geav eagv aegv gaev agev

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Definitions and meaning of vega

vega

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) [ˈbe.ɣə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈve.ɣə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈve.ɣa]

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

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/
  • 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 , 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

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

  1. to fight
    • c. 1000 AD, inscription on the Sjörup Runestone
  2. 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/ [ˈbe.ɣ̞a]
  • 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

Source: wiktionary.org