vexen
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]vexen
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]vexen
- inflection of vexar:
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old French vexer, from Latin vēxō, vēxāre.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]vexen
- To afflict; to hurt (someone)
- To spoil; to devastate (a region)
- To harass; to bother (someone)
- (law) To bring legal action (against someone)
- To distress; to torment (someone)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of vexen (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “vexen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]vexen
- Alternative form of waxen (“to grow”)
Categories:
- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan verb forms
- Galician non-lemma forms
- Galician verb forms
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Latin
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English verbs
- enm:Law
- Middle English weak verbs
- enm:Pain