different between vegetal vs vegetality

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin veget?lis, from veget?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?d??tl?/
• (General American) enPR: v?j??-tl, IPA^(key): /?v?d???tl?/
• Rhymes: -?d??t?l
• Hyphenation UK: ve?ge?tal, US: veg?e?tal

Adjective

vegetal (comparative more vegetal, superlative most vegetal)

1. (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
2. 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.

3. (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

Derived terms

• vegetally
• vegetal pole
• vegetaline

Translations

Noun

vegetal (plural vegetals)

1. (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.

   • This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.

Anagrams

• gavelet

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v?.???tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?.???tal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve.d??e?tal/

Adjective

vegetal (masculine and feminine plural vegetals)

1. relating to plants or vegetables

Interlingua

Adjective

vegetal (not comparable)

1. vegetal, vegetable

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ved??e?tal/

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetaj)

1. vegetable

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve?e?taw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /v????ta?/
• Hyphenation: ve?ge?tal

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetais)

1. vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
2. (figuratively) vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)

Synonyms

• (edible material derived from a plant):, verdura f, planta f, erva f, hortaliça f

Adjective

vegetal m or f (plural vegetais, comparable)

1. Relative to plants and vegetables

   Célula vegetal.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French végétal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve.d??e?tal/

Adjective

vegetal m or n (feminine singular vegetal?, masculine plural vegetali, feminine and neuter plural vegetale)

1. vegetal, vegetable

Declension

Further reading

• vegetal in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bexe?tal/, [be.xe?t?al]
• Hyphenation: ve?ge?tal

Adjective

vegetal (plural vegetales)

1. vegetal

Derived terms

• aceite vegetal

Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetales)

1. vegetable

   Synonym: verdura

English

Etymology

vegetal +? -ity

Noun

vegetality (uncountable)

1. (biology) The quality or state of being vegetal.