vega

From Spanish vega

vega (plural vegas)

1. (Latin America, Philippines) An open tract of ground; a plain, especially one which is moist and fertile, such as those used for growing tobacco.

Perhaps chosen arbitrarily as a word beginning with "v" (for "volatility") that sounds as if it could be a Greek letter (like the related risk parameters "delta", "gamma" etc.)

vega (plural vegas)

1. (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.

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• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

• EVGA, gave

vega f (plural vegues)

1. meadow
2. romp in the open air

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛːɣa/

  Rhymes: -ɛːɣa

vega (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative vó, third-person plural past indicative vógu, supine vegið)

1. (with accusative) to weigh
2. (with accusative) to consider, to ponder, to weigh
3. (with accusative) to slay

   Hetjan vó drekann.

   The hero slew the dragon.

• vege

From Old Norse vega. Akin to English weigh.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋeːɡɑ/

vega (present tense veg, past tense vog, past participle vege, present participle vegande, imperative veg)

1. to weigh (To determine the weight of an object)
2. to weigh (To have a certain weight)

• “vega” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

vega

1. nominative plural of vegr, ‘ways’
2. (poetic) earth

   Hvé sú jǫrð heitir, / er liggr fyr alda sonum / heimi hverjum í?

   [...] Jǫrð heitir með mǫnnum, / en með Ásum fold, / kalla vega Vanir. — verses 9 and 10 of the Alvíssmál

   How is the earth named, / that which lies before the sons of men, / in each of the worlds?

   [...] "Earth" it is named among men, / but among the Æsir "Field", / the Vanir call it "Ways".

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).

vega

1. to weigh

• Danish: veje
• Faroese: viga
• Icelandic: vega
• Norwegian Bokmål: veie
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vega, vege
• Swedish: väga

• vega in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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

vega f (plural vegas)

1. meadow
2. fertile lowland
3. grassy plain
4. valley (the fertile lowlands surrounding a river)
5. alluvial plain
6. (Carribean) tobacco plantation

• Las Vegas
• Vega