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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

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.)

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

Catalan

Noun

vega f (plural vegues)

1. meadow
2. romp in the open air

Dutch

Etymology

Likely from vega-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?.?a?/
• Hyphenation: ve?ga
• Rhymes: -e??a?

Noun

vega m (plural vega's)

1. (informal) A vegetarian, a veggie.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse vega (“to weigh”), from Proto-Germanic *wegan? (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wé??e-, *we??-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v???a/

  Rhymes: -???a

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?e???/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vega, from Proto-Germanic *wegan? (“to move, carry; to weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wé??eti (“to be transporting”), from the root *we??- (“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 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 plural of vegr, ‘ways’
2. (poetic) earth

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

   [...] J?rð heitir með m?nnum, / 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 *wegan? (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wé??e-, *we??-. Compare Old Saxon wegan, Old High German wegan, and Old English wegan, Old Frisian wega, Gothic ???????????????????? (wigan).

Verb

vega

1. to weigh

Conjugation

Descendants

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

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *wigan? (“to fight, to battle”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to fight”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????? (weihan).

Verb

vega

1. to fight
   • c. 1000 AD, inscription on the Sjörup runestone

Conjugation

Past first/third singular vá.

Descendants

• Icelandic: vega
• Old Swedish: vægha

References

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

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

English

Etymology 1

Noun

lyra

1. (anatomy, dated) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
   • 1840, Alexander Tweedie, William Wood Gerhard, A system of practical medicine: Volume 1 (page 295)

     The vessels of the brain generally are often distended and gorged with blood, the lyra especially being fully injected.

Etymology 2

Noun

lyra (plural lyras)

1. A vertically suspended hoop used in acrobatic performances.

Anagrams

• Lary, RYLA, Rayl, Ryal, aryl, lyar, ryal, yarl

Czech

Etymology

From Latin lyra (“a lyre, a lyric”), from Ancient Greek ???? (lúr?, “a lyre”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?ra/
• Rhymes: -?ra
• Hyphenation: ly?ra
• Homophone: lira

Noun

lyra f

1. lyre (ancient musical instrument) [19th c.]

Declension

Related terms

• lyrický
• lyrik
• lyrika

References

Anagrams

• ryla

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (lúra, “lyre”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ly.ra/, [?l??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?li.ra/, [?li???]

Noun

lyra f (genitive lyrae); first declension

1. (music) lyre, lute

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lyricen
• lyricus
• lyrist?s

Descendants

• English: Lyra
• Spanish: lira

References

• lyra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lyra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lyra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lyra in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lyra f (definite singular lyra, indefinite plural lyrer or lyror, definite plural lyrene or lyrone)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by lyre
2. definite singular of lyre

Swedish

Noun

lyra c

1. a lyre (a stringed musical instrument)
2. a European pollock (Pollachius pollachius)

   Synonyms: lyrtorsk, (regional) bleksej, bleka

3. (brännboll) a catch without the ball having touched the ground

Declension

Derived terms

a catch in brännboll

• enhandslyra

Anagrams

• ylar