vexo
Catalan
Galician
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷegs-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷog- (“to shake, swing”). Cognate with Old English cweccan (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate; shake off, give up”). More at quake.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈweːk.soː/
Inflection
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Descendants
References
- vexo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vexo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vexo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
- the Furies harass and torment some one: Furiae agitant et vexant aliquem
- to damage the state: rem publicam vexare
- to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
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