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English

vigil

Etymology

Middle English vigile ("a devotional watching"), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia ("wakefulness, watch"), from vigil ("awake"), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- ("to be strong").

Noun

vigil (plural: vigils)

  1. a watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person
  2. a period of observation or surveillance
  3. the eve of some religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions

Translations

watch

  • Nederlands: Waak, Wake
  • German: Wache
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Latin

vigil

Etymology

Proto-Indo-European *weg- ("to be strong").

Adjective

vigil

  1. awake, watching, alert

Noun

vigil m (plural: vigiles)

  1. watchman, sentinel
  2. (plural) the watch, police

Inflection

Third declension (3).

singular plural
nominative vigil vigilēs
genitive vigilis vigilum
dative vigilī vigilibus
accusative vigilem vigilēs
ablative vigile vigilibus
vocative vigilis vigilēs

Derived terms

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