vega

See also: Vega, vegà, and веѓа

English

Etymology 1

From Spanish vega

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

Perhaps chosen arbitrarily as a word beginning with "v" (for "volatility") that sounds as if it could be a Greek letter (like the related risk parameters "delta", "gamma" etc.)

Noun

vega (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)

Anagrams

• EVGA, gave

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Catalan

Noun

vega f (plural vegues)

1. meadow
2. romp in the open air

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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.

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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 vó, 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

   Hetjan vó drekann.

   The hero slew the dragon.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• vega salt
• vega sig upp (to pull oneself up)

• vega upp á móti (to counterbalance something, to compensate for something)
• vega þungt (to carry a lot of weight)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• vege

Etymology

From Old Norse vega. Akin to English weigh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʋeːɡɑ/

Verb

vega (present tense veg, past tense vog, past participle vege, present participle vegande, imperative veg)

1. to weigh (To determine the weight of an object)
2. to weigh (To have a certain weight)

References

• “vega” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Norse

Etymology 1

Noun

vega

1. accusative plural of vegr, ‘ways’
2. (poetic) earth

   Hvé sú jǫrð heitir, / er liggr fyr alda sonum / heimi hverjum í?

   [...] Jǫrð heitir með mǫnnum, / en með Ásum fold, / kalla vega Vanir. — verses 9 and 10 of the Alvíssmál

   How is the earth named, / that which lies before the sons of men, / in each of the worlds?

   [...] "Earth" it is named among men, / but among the Æsir "Field", / the Vanir call it "Ways".

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

Conjugation of vega — active (strong class 5)

infinitive	vega
present participle	vegandi
past participle	veginn
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	veg	vá
2nd-person singular	vegr	vátt
3rd-person singular	vegr	vá
1st-person plural	vegum	vágum
2nd-person plural	vegið	váguð
3rd-person plural	vega	vágu
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	vega	væga
2nd-person singular	vegir	vægir
3rd-person singular	vegi	vægi
1st-person plural	vegim	vægim
2nd-person plural	vegið	vægið
3rd-person plural	vegi	vægi
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	veg
1st-person plural	vegum
2nd-person plural	vegið

Conjugation of vega — mediopassive (strong class 5)

infinitive	vegask
present participle	vegandisk
past participle	vegizk
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	vegumk	vágumk
2nd-person singular	vegsk	vázk
3rd-person singular	vegsk	vásk
1st-person plural	vegumsk	vágumsk
2nd-person plural	vegizk	váguzk
3rd-person plural	vegask	vágusk
subjunctive	present	past
1st-person singular	vegumk	vægumk
2nd-person singular	vegisk	vægisk
3rd-person singular	vegisk	vægisk
1st-person plural	vegimsk	vægimsk
2nd-person plural	vegizk	vægizk
3rd-person plural	vegisk	vægisk
imperative	present
2nd-person singular	vegsk
1st-person plural	vegumsk
2nd-person plural	vegizk

Descendants

• Danish: veje
• Faroese: viga
• Icelandic: vega
• Norwegian Bokmål: veie
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vega, vege
• Swedish: väga

References

• “vega”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Spanish

Etymology

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

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. (Carribean) tobacco plantation

See also

• Las Vegas
• Vega