viga

See also: vigā

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːɡə/

Noun

viga (plural vigas)

1. A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village
   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:

     The vigas were partly down and hunters or herdsmen had built fires in the floor.

Anagrams

• GAVI, vagi

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Asturian

Noun

viga f (plural vigues)

1. beam

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Estonian

Etymology

Cognate with Finnish vika.

Noun

viga (genitive vea, partitive viga)

1. mistake, fault

Declension

Declension of viga (ÕS type 18u/sõda, g-ø gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		viga	vead
accusative	nom.
	gen.	vea
genitive			vigade
partitive		viga	vigu vigasid
illative		vikka veasse	vigadesse
inessive		veas	vigades
elative		veast	vigadest
allative		veale	vigadele
adessive		veal	vigadel
ablative		vealt	vigadelt
translative		veaks	vigadeks
terminative		veani	vigadeni
essive		veana	vigadena
abessive		veata	vigadeta
comitative		veaga	vigadega

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Italian

Verb

viga

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of vigere

Anagrams

• Gavi, vagì

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Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) vigā

Etymology

From .

Noun

viga

1. fault

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Ludian

Etymology

From .

Noun

viga

1. flaw
2. defect

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Portuguese

Etymology

Origin uncertain; probably from Latin bīga ‘tree-trunk’. Cognate with Spanish viga, Catalan biga, Occitan biga.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

Noun

viga f (plural vigas)

1. beam (large piece of timber or iron)

Synonyms

• trave

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Spanish

Etymology

Origin uncertain; probably from Latin bīga ‘tree-trunk’. Cognate with Portuguese viga, Catalan biga, Occitan biga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɡa/
• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

Noun

viga f (plural vigas)

1. timber, beam, rafter, girder

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Swedish

Etymology 1

Adjective

viga

1. (deprecated template usage) inflection of vig:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish vīghia, from Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

viga (present viger, preterite vigde, supine vigt, imperative vig)

1. to marry; to unite in wedlock or matrimony
2. to devote something for a specific purpose

   Han har vigt sitt liv åt att hjälpa andra.

   He has devoted his life to helping others.

Conjugation

Conjugation of viga (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	viga		vigas
Supine	vigt		vigts
Imperative	vig		—
Imper. plural1	vigen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	viger	vigde	vigs, viges	vigdes
Ind. plural1	viga	vigde	vigas	vigdes
Subjunctive2	vige	vigde	viges	vigdes
	Participles
Present participle	vigande
Past participle	vigd
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• inviga
• vigsel
• vigvatten

See also

• gifta

Anagrams

• giva

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Veps

Etymology

From .

Noun

viga

1. flaw
2. defect
3. failure, malfunction
4. damage
5. mistake

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “брак, дефект, изъян, неисправность, ошибка, повод, повреждение, порок, упущение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Volapük

Noun

viga

1. genitive singular of vig