vegetate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vegetatum, past participle of vegeto (“I enliven, I arouse”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛdʒɪteɪt/
  • Audio (UK):(file)

Verb

vegetate (third-person singular simple present vegetates, present participle vegetating, simple past and past participle vegetated)

  1. (of a plant) To grow or sprout.
  2. (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally.
  3. (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
    • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 105:
      I am amazed to see a young man of your appearance and talents—though, after I have been thus depreciating the latter, it is almost an affront to say any thing about those you possess—I am amazed to see you vegetating among your own oaks, as if, like them, growth were your only value."

Translations

Esperanto

Adverb

vegetate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of vegeti

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

vegetate

  1. inflection of vegetare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

vegetate f pl

  1. feminine plural of vegetato

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) vegetāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of vegetō
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