Vega

¹

[vee-guh, vey-]

noun

1. Astronomy.,  a star of the first magnitude in the constellation Lyra.

Vega

²

[vey-guh, ve-gah]

noun

1. Lope de Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.

2. Garcilaso de la Vega.

Vega

¹

/ ˈviːɡə /

noun

1. the brightest star in the constellation Lyra and one of the most conspicuous in the N hemisphere. It is part of an optical double star having a faint companion. Distance: 25.3 light years; spectral type: A0V

Vega

²

/ ˈveɪɡə, ˈbeɣa /

noun

1. See Lope de Vega

Vega

1. A star in the constellation Lyra and one of the five brightest stars in the night sky. It is a white main-sequence star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with an apparent magnitude of 0.04. Vega, along with Altair and Deneb, form the Summer Triangle asterism. Scientific name: Alpha Lyra.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vega¹

1630–40; < Medieval Latin < Arabic ( al-nasr-al- ) wāqiʿ (the) falling (eagle), originally designating the three stars Alpha, Epsilon and Zeta Lyrae

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vega¹

C17: from Medieval Latin, from Arabic ( al nasr ) al wāqi, literally: the falling (vulture), that is, the constellation Lyra

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