different between vex vs vee

English

Etymology

From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin v?x?re (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Displaced native Middle English grillen (“to vex, annoy”) from Old English grillan. Doublet of quake.

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?ks, IPA^(key): /v?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Verb

vex (third-person singular simple present vexes, present participle vexing, simple past and past participle vexed or (archaic) vext)

1. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
2. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.

3. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
4. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.

   • some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
   • 1613, George Chapman, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

     Wake when thou would'st wake, fear nought, vex for nought

6. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:vex.

Synonyms

• (to annoy): agitate, irk, irritate
• (to cause mental suffering): afflict, grame, torment

Derived terms

Related terms

• quake
• vexatious

Translations

Noun

vex (plural vexes)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A trouble.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “vex”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

vex

1. Alternative form of wax (“wax”)

Etymology 2

Verb

vex

1. Alternative form of vexen

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vi?/
• Homophone: ve
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

vee (plural vees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.
2. Something with the shape of the letter V.
   • 2013, Nancy Springer, We Don't Know Why

     The river leapt and rippled like a lizard. Geese flew over in a vee, crying to the sky.
3. (cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played
4. A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.

Derived terms

• teevee
• veep

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Anagrams

• EVE, EeV, Eve, eve

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vêe, from Old Dutch f?, from Proto-West Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *pe?u- (“livestock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve?/
• Hyphenation: vee
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

vee n (uncountable)

1. (collective) livestock, cattle

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vee

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

vee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

Etymology 2

Noun

vee

1. genitive singular of vesi

Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish ve (“name of the letter V”). Similar names are also found in other European languages, such as English vee, French vé and Latvian v?. It is ultimately formed by analogy with Latin letter names such as b? for B, but it is unknown in which this language took place.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?/, [??e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: vee

Noun

vee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

Declension

Compounds

• kaksoisvee
• tuplavee

Anagrams

• eve

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch f?, from Proto-West Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *pe?u- (“livestock”).

Noun

vêe f or n

1. livestock (collectively)
2. animal of livestock

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• vie

Descendants

• Dutch: vee
  • Afrikaans: vee
• Limburgish: vieë, vieëch

Further reading

• “vee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “vee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Võro

Noun

vee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• kaksisvee