You can think of vegetative as the way a plant is alive. A plant takes in water, puts out leaves, gets bigger and makes more of itself — and none of it is decided by anything. Living and growing happen; choosing does not. Both uses of the word sit on that picture.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces it through Middle French vegetatif and Medieval Latin vegetativus to Latin vegetare, to make grow or enliven — so growing has been the centre of the word from the start.
來源資料把它追到中古法文 végétatif、中世紀拉丁文 vegetativus，再到拉丁文 vegetare（使生長、使有活力）。也就是說，「長」這件事從一開始就在這個字的中心。
Wiktionary (kaikki) entry for 'vegetative' supplied in the evidence packet: 'From Middle French végétatif, from Medieval Latin vegetativus, from past participle stem of vegetare.' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:808991522:4157)
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