vegete

See also: végété, végéte, vegeté, and végète

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vegetus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vegete (comparative more vegete, superlative most vegete)

  1. (obsolete) lively; active; sprightly; vigorous.[1]
    • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 25:
      […] we may by these means, with some little inconvenience, avoid the pain and arrive at a vegete old age.

References
  1. “vegete”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Adjective

vegete f pl

  1. feminine plural of vegeto

Latin

Verb

vegēte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of vegeō

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /veˈʒɛ.t͡ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /veˈʒɛ.te/
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ
  • Hyphenation: ve‧ge‧te

Verb

vegete

  1. inflection of vegetar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /beˈxete/ [beˈxe.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Syllabification: ve‧ge‧te

Verb

vegete

  1. inflection of vegetar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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