# vega
## English
### Etymology 1

From Spanish vega.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈveɪɡə/

#### Noun

vega (plural vegas)
* (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.)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈveɪɡə/
* IPA: /ˈviɡə/

#### Noun

vega (countable and uncountable, plural vegas)
* (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)

##### Derived terms

* vega convexity

### Anagrams

* EVGA, gave

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbe.ɣə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈve.ɣə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈve.ɣa]

### Etymology 1

From Old Basque *bai-ko (“river plain, water meadow”); akin to Basque ibaiki (“riverbank”), from ibai (“river”).

#### Noun

vega f (plural vegues)
* meadow

### Etymology 2

Possibly from the sense of "meadow" or possibly from vagar (“to wander”) with a change of vowel.

#### Noun

vega f (plural vegues)
* a romp in the open air
* pleasure, especially in the act of eating
** 1994, Carme Riera, Dins el darrer blau:Per contra, el faria caure d'una embranzida i un cop en terra el deixaria podrir fins que els cucs hi fessin una bona vega.On the contrary, he would make it fall at one bound and once on the ground he would let it rot until the worms made a nice feast of it.

### Further reading

* “vega” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “vega”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “vega” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Likely from vega-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈveː.ɣaː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ve‧ga
* Rhymes: -eːɣaː

### Noun

vega m (plural vega's)
* (informal) a vegetarian, a veggie

### Adjective

vega (not comparable)
* veggie, vegetarian

#### Declension
## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse vega (“to weigh”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɛːɣa/
    Rhymes: -ɛːɣa

### Verb

vega (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vó, third-person plural past indicative vógu, supine vegið)
* to weigh [with accusative]
* to consider, to ponder, to weigh [with accusative]
* to slay [with accusative]
    Hetjan vó drekann.The hero slew the dragon.

#### Derived terms

* vega salt
* vega sig upp (“to pull oneself up”)
* vega upp á móti (“to counterbalance something, to compensate for something”)
* vega þungt (“to carry a lot of weight”)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ʋeːɡɑ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vega, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry; to weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti (“to be transporting”), from the root *weǵʰ- (“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)
* (transitive) to weigh (To determine the weight of an object)
* (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 vega/veg)
* (ambitransitive) 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
* accusative/genitive plural of vegr

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-. Compare Old Saxon wegan, Old High German wegan, and Old English wegan, Old Frisian wega, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (wigan).

#### Verb

vega
* to weigh

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: vega
* Faroese: viga
* Norwegian Nynorsk: vega; (dialectal) vågå, vaga
** >? Russenorsk: vegom
* Old Swedish: vægha
** Swedish: väga
* Old Danish: wæghæ
** Danish: veje
*** Norwegian Bokmål: veie

### Etymology 3

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

#### Verb

vega
* to fight
** c. 1000 AD, inscription on the Sjörup Runestone
    […] saʀ : flu : aki : a[t :] ub:sal(u)m : an : ua : maþ : an : uabn : a(f)þi […] Sāʀ flō ęigi at Upsalum, ęn wā męð han wāpn hafði. […] He did not flee at Uppsala, but fought as long as he had a weapon.
* to slay, to kill

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: vega
* Danish: veje
* Old Swedish: vægha

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vega”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish vayca, from Old Basque *bai-ko (“river plain, water meadow”); akin to Basque ibaiki (“riverbank”), from ibai (“river”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbeɡa/ [ˈbe.ɣ̞a]
* Rhymes: -eɡa
* Syllabification: ve‧ga

### Noun

vega f (plural vegas)
* meadow
* fertile lowland
* grassy plain
* valley (the fertile lowlands surrounding a river)
* alluvial plain
* (Caribbean) tobacco plantation

### See also

* Las Vegas
* Vega

### Further reading

* “vega”, 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