The corpus record — Latin

vegeo

vegeo · v. a

to move

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant

1. vĕgĕo — Lewis & Short

vĕgĕo, ēre, v. a. and n.Sanscr. ugras, strong; Gr. u(gih/s, healthful; cf. vigeo, vigor; augeo, vigil.

I Act., to move, excite, quicken, arouse (ante-class.): aequora salsa veges ingentibu' ventis, Enn. ap. Non. 183, 3 (Com. v. 2, p. 153 Vahl.): cum magno strepitu Volcanum ventu' vegebat, id. ap. Fest. s. v. metonymia, p. 153 Müll. (Ann. v. 477 Vahl.): animos Venus veget voluptatibus, Pompon. ap. Non. 183, 2.—

II Neutr., to be lively, active: viget, veget utpote plurimum, Varr. ap. Non. 183, 6.

2. vegeö — Walde–Hofmann

vegeö, -ui, -Zre „bin munter*; trs, „errege* (seit Enn.), vegetus, -8, -wm. „rührig, lebhaft, munter* (seit Liv., vegetó, -àet, -atum, -àre seit Sen., vegetübilis, -e seit Amm., vegetümen, -inis seit Prud., vegetätiö f. seit Apul., -ätor seit Auson.), vigil, vigeö, (s. dd.): al edjoh „Kraft, Schnelligkeit, Wettkampf, Kampfpreis*, väjayati „treibt zur Eile, läuft um die Wette“, eájrah „Donnerkeil des Indra* usw. = … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vegeö, p. 1649]

In the wild

vegeat Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.532

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vegeö (scan pp. 1649-1650; entry #3168). Root candidates: *vehesment-.

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