# vegetal
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin vegetālis, from vegetō.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɨtl̩/
* (General American) enPR: vĕjʹĭ-tl, IPA: /ˈvɛd͡ʒɪ̈tl̩/
* Rhymes: -ɛdʒɪtəl
* Hyphenation UK: ve‧ge‧tal, US: veg‧e‧tal

### Adjective

vegetal (comparative more vegetal, superlative most vegetal)
* (now rare, historical) Capable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational). [from 15th c.]
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].
* Pertaining to vegetables or plants. [from 16th c.]
** 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos.
** 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.
* (wine) Having a grassy, herbaceous taste.

#### Derived terms

* vegetality
* vegetally
* vegetal pole
* vegetaline

#### Translations
### Noun

vegetal (plural vegetals)
* (obsolete, chiefly botany) Any vegetable organism.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.

### Anagrams

* gavelet

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vegetālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [bə.ʒəˈtal]
* IPA: (Balearic) [və.ʒəˈtal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ve.d͡ʒeˈtal]

### Adjective

vegetal m or f (masculine and feminine plural vegetals)
* (relational) plant, vegetable; vegetal

### Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetals)
* plant, vegetable
    Synonym: planta

#### Derived terms

* vegetalisme
* vegetalista

### Further reading

* “vegetal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Interlingua
### Adjective

vegetal (not comparable)
* vegetal, vegetable

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ved͡ʒeˈtal/

### Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetaj)
* vegetable

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ve.ʒeˈtaw/ [ve.ʒeˈtaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /vɨ.ʒɨˈtal/ [vɨ.ʒɨˈtaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /vɨ.ʒɨˈtal/ [vɨ.ʒɨˈtaɫ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /bɨ.ʒɨˈtal/ [bɨ.ʒɨˈtaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /vɨ.ʒɨˈta.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: ve‧ge‧tal

### Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetais)
* vegetable (edible material derived from a plant)
    Synonyms: verdura f, planta f, erva f, hortaliça f
* (figuratively) vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)

### Adjective

vegetal m or f (plural vegetais)
* (relational) plant
    célula vegetal ― plant cell

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French végétal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ve.d͡ʒeˈtal/

### Adjective

vegetal m or n (feminine singular vegetală, masculine plural vegetali, feminine and neuter plural vegetale)
* vegetal, vegetable

#### Declension
### Further reading

* vegetal in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bexeˈtal/ [be.xeˈt̪al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: ve‧ge‧tal

### Adjective

vegetal m or f (masculine and feminine plural vegetales)
* vegetal

#### Derived terms

* aceite vegetal
* carbón vegetal
* seso vegetal

### Noun

vegetal m (plural vegetales)
* vegetable
    Synonym: verdura

### Further reading

* “vegetal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10