viga

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːɡə/
• Rhymes: -iːɡə

viga (plural vigas)

1. (New Mexico) A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village
   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IX, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

     The smoke spread along the sagging vigas above them and little streams of liquid clay started down from the sod roof.

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy; 1), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN:

     The vigas were partly down and hunters or herdsmen had built fires in the floor.

• GAVI, vagi

viga f (plural vigues)

1. beam

From Proto-Finnic *vika, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swiką (“deception”). Cognates include Votic, Ingrian, and Finnish vika (“ailment, disease; fault, error; fault; defect; disability; disorder; bad habit”), Livonian vigā (“error; disease; fault; cause”), Karelian, Livvi, and Veps viga (“defect; error; fault; cause”) and Inari Sami vahe (“mistake; injury; illness”) (from Proto-Samic *vëkē).

• IPA^(key): /ˈviɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈviɡ̊ɑ]

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• Rhymes: -iɡ̊ɑ
• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

viga (genitive vea, partitive viga)

1. mistake, error, fault (failure to comply with a rule, norm, standard, fact, etc., deviation from correct performance)
2. flaw, defect, blemish, drawback (being out of order)

   Mis sul viga on? ― What's wrong with you? (literally, “What is your flaw?”)

   1. malaise; disease; injury

      Ärge tehke talle viga! ― Don't hurt him! (literally, “Don't make him any injuries!”)

3. lack, deficiency (something that prevents from being perfect, a disturbing quality, tendency, or phenomenon, a weak or negative aspect)
4. fault, blame; cause, reason

• (flaw, defect): häire, rike
• (disease): haigus, tõbi, häda
• (lack): nõrkus, puudujääk, puudus
• (fault, blame): süü

• viga in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “viga”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Old Norse vega (“to weigh”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to carry, move, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-.

viga (third person singular past indicative vigaði, third person plural past indicative vigaðu, supine vigað)

1. to weigh

viga

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of vigere

• Gavi, vagì

viga

1. Salaca form of vigā (“fault”)

• Andreas Johan Sjögren, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1861), Livisch-deutsches und deutsch-livisches Wörterbuch
• Pajusalu, Karl & Winkler, Eberhard, Salis-livisches Wörterbuch (2009). Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia. Tallinn.

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

viga

1. flaw
2. defect

viga

1. mutated form of figa (“plate”)

• Rhymes: -iɡɐ
• Hyphenation: vi‧ga

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga. Cognate with Spanish viga, Catalan and Occitan biga.

viga f (plural vigas)

1. (engineering) beam (linear part subject mainly to bending stresses; prismatic construction element made of reinforced concrete, wood, etc.)

   Synonym: trave

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

viga

1. inflection of vigar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “viga”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “viga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “viga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Portuguese viga, Catalan biga, Occitan biga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɡa/ [ˈbi.ɣ̞a]

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• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: vi‧ga

viga f (plural vigas)

1. timber, beam, rafter, girder

• → English: viga

• “viga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈvîː.ɡa/

From Old Swedish vīghia, from Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

viga (present viger, preterite vigde, supine vigt, imperative vig)

1. to marry; to unite in wedlock or matrimony
2. to devote something for a specific purpose

   Han har vigt sitt liv åt att hjälpa andra.

   He has devoted his life to helping others.

3. to ordain; to admit into the ministry of a religion

   Synonym: ordinera

   • 2004, Anders Piltz, “Gunnar Rosendals verk”, in Signum‎^[1], number 4, archived from the original on 9 May 2021:

     Müller närde förhoppningar om att kunna viga honom till katolsk präst.

     Müller had hopes of being able to ordain him as a Catholic priest.

   • 2010, Lars Cavallin, transl., Katolska kyrkans katekes‎^[2], Catholica, archived from the original on 20 April 2025, §1580:

     I de orientaliska kyrkorna [...] kan gifta män vigas till präster och diakoner.

     In the Eastern Churches married men can be ordained as priests and deacons.

• gifta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

viga

1. inflection of vig:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• “viga”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• giva

From Proto-Finnic *vika.

viga

1. flaw
2. defect
3. failure, malfunction
4. damage
5. mistake

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “брак, дефект, изъян, неисправность, ошибка, повод, повреждение, порок, упущение”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

viga

1. genitive singular of vig