vetch

vetch

English

Wikispecies

A vetch (Vicia cracca)

Alternative forms

• fitch

Etymology

From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. Doublet of fitch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛt͡ʃ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

Noun

vetch (plural vetches)

1. Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.
2. Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae.

Synonyms

• tare (rare)

Hyponyms

• (Vicia): garden vetch, common vetch, narrow-leaved vetch (Vicia sativa); American vetch, purple vetch, mat vetch (Vicia americana); bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia); tufted vetch (Vicia cracca); bard vetch (Vicia articulata); Bithynian vetch (Vicia bithynica); Carolina wood vetch (Vicia caroliniana); fodder vetch, hairy vetch, winter vetch (Vicia villosa); bard vetch (Vicia articulata); French vetch (Vicia serratifolia); Hungarian vetch (Vicia pannonica); Kashubian vetch (Vicia cassubica); spring vetch (Vicia lathyroides); yellow vetch (Vicia lutea); Hawaiian vetch (Vicia menziesii); pygmyflower vetch (Vicia minutiflora); single-flowered vetch (Vicia monantha); black vetch, giant vetch (Vicia nigricans); upright vetch, wood bitter-vetch (Vicia orobus); slender vetch (Vicia parviflora); pea-flowered vetch (Vicia pisiformis); bush vetch (Vicia sepium); wood vetch (Vicia sylvatica); fine-leaved vetch (Vicia tenuifolia); smooth vetch (Vicia tetrasperma)

Derived terms

• deervetch (Acmispon glaber)
• kidney vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria)
• milk-vetch (Astragalus spp.)
• poisonvetch (Astragalus spp.)
• vetchling (Lathyrus spp.)
• vetchy

 

Translations

plant of the genus Vicia

Arabic: بِيقِيَّة‎ f (bīqiyya) Bulgarian: фий (bg) m (fij) Catalan: veça f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Cornish: gwegbys Czech: vikev (cs) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: wikke (nl) f Estonian: hiirehernes Finnish: virna (fi) French: vesce (fr) f Galician: ervellaca (gl) f, fabaca (gl) f, veza f, nichela f, brenza f Georgian: ცერცველა (cercvela) German: Wicke (de) f Greek: αρακάς (el) m (arakás) Ancient: ἀφάκη f (aphákē), βῐκία f (bikía), βῐκίον n (bikíon) (from Koine) Hebrew: כַּרְשִׁינָה‎ f Hungarian: bükköny (hu) Italian: veccia f Japanese: 烏野豌豆 (からすのえんどう, karasunoendō) (common), 矢筈豌豆 (やはずえんどう, yahazu endō) (official in botany) Latin: ervum n, vicia f Lithuanian: vikis (lt) Middle English: fecche Norman: vèche f (Jersey) Persian: ماش‎ (fa) (mâš) Piedmontese: vëssa f Plautdietsch: Wekj m Polish: wyka (pl) f Portuguese: ervilhaca f Romanian: măzăriche (ro) f Russian: ви́ка (ru) f (víka), горо́шек (ru) m (goróšek) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гра̏хорица f, грашица f, гра̏хор m, гра̏хорина f, гра̏хорика f Latin: grȁhorica (sh) f, grašica f, grȁhor m, grȁhorina f, grȁhorika f Slovak: vika f Slovene: grášica f, gráhor m Spanish: veza (es) f, arveja (es) f Swedish: vicker c

Further reading

• vetch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Yola

Etymology

From Middle English vecchen, from Old English feċċan.

Verb

vetch

1. to fetch
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13:

     He at nouth fade t'zey, llean vetch ee man,

     He that knows what to say, mischief fetch the man,

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 90