词根词缀：veget-, vege-

【来源及含义】Latin: animating, enlivening; vigorous, vigor, active; to be alive, activity, to quicken; then a quickening action of growing; a specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb, or root" is first recorded in 1767; the differences between the meanings from its original links with "life, liveliness" was completed in the early twentieth century, when vegetable came to be used for an "inactive person".

【同源单词】emergent vegetation, lactovegetarian, ovolactovegetarian, ovovegetarian, vegan, veganism