vegetal
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin vegetālis, from vegetō.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛdʒɪtəl
- Hyphenation UK: ve‧ge‧tal, US: veg‧e‧tal
Adjective
vegetal (comparative more vegetal, superlative most vegetal)
- (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:
- Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].
- Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
- 2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241:
- The Computer Center is muffled and dim, warm with whiffs of sourness, of body odor, and of the vegetal smells of dirt embedded in clothes that were advancing in the direction of compost.
- 2018, Susan Orlean, The Library Book, Simon and Schusterl, page 241:
- (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.
Derived terms
Translations
pertaining to vegetables or plants
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Noun
vegetal (plural vegetals)
- (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vegetālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vegetal m or f (masculine and feminine plural vegetals)
- vegetal (relating to plants or vegetables)
Noun
vegetal m (plural vegetals)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vegetal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Interlingua
Adjective
vegetal (not comparable)
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
Noun
vegetal m (plural vegetaj)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
vegetal m (plural vegetais)
- vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
- (figuratively) vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)
Adjective
vegetal m or f (plural vegetais)
- (relational) plant
- célula vegetal ― plant cell
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
vegetal m or n (feminine singular vegetală, masculine plural vegetali, feminine and neuter plural vegetale)
Declension
Declension of vegetal
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | vegetal | vegetală | vegetali | vegetale | ||
definite | vegetalul | vegetala | vegetalii | vegetalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | vegetal | vegetale | vegetali | vegetale | ||
definite | vegetalului | vegetalei | vegetalilor | vegetalelor |
Further reading
- vegetal in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
vegetal m or f (masculine and feminine plural vegetales)
Derived terms
Noun
vegetal m (plural vegetales)
Further reading
- “vegetal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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