vigilante

See also: Vigilante

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), from Latin vigilans. Doublet of vigilant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.ɪˈlæn.ti/, /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.ɪˈlɑːn.teɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌvɪd͡ʒ.əˈlæn.ti/

Noun

vigilante (plural vigilantes)

1. A member of a vigilance committee. [from 19th c.]
2. A person who acts outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc.

Derived terms

• vigilantism
• digilante

Translations

person who considers it their responsibility to summarily uphold the law

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 義務警員／义务警员 (yìwù jǐngyuán), 治安會會員／治安会会员 (zhì'ānhuì huìyuán)

• Dutch: lid van een waakzaamheidscomité, eigenrechter
• Faroese: sjálvrættarmaður
• Finnish: omankädenoikeuden käyttäjä
• French: justicier (fr) m
• German: Mitglied einer Bürgerwehr n; (rare) Vigilant m
• Greek: βιτζιλάντε (vitzilánte), εθελοντής φρουρός (ethelontís frourós), εκδικητής (el) (ekdikitís)
• Hungarian: önbíráskodó, önkéntes/önjelölt polgárőr, önkényes igazságosztó/rendfenntartó
• Japanese: 自警団員 (じけいだんいん, jikeidan'in)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} ویژیلانته (vižilânte)
• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see samozwańczy obrońca m
• Portuguese: justiceiro (pt) m
• Russian: дружи́нник (ru) m (družínnik), дружи́нница (ru) f (družínnica) (member of a voluntary public order squad), виджила́нте m or f (vidžilántɛ) (US), член «комите́та бди́тельности» m (člen «komitéta bdítelʹnosti»), титу́шка (ru) m or f (titúška) (neologism), хунвэйби́н (ru) m (xunvɛjbín) (hongweibing), черносо́тенец (ru) m (černosótenec) (historically member of "Black Hundred"), охотноря́дец (ru) m (oxotnorjádec), погро́мщик (ru) m (pogrómščik)
• Spanish: justiciero m
• Thai: ศาลเตี้ย (th) (sǎan-dtîia)

Anagrams

• genitival

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.ʒi.lɑ̃t/

• Audio:

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Adjective

vigilante

1. feminine singular of vigilant

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.d͡ʒiˈlan.te/
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧làn‧te

Participle

vigilante (plural vigilanti)

1. present participle of vigilare

Adjective

vigilante (plural vigilanti)

1. vigilant, watchful, alert

   Synonyms: vigile, attento

Related terms

• vigilanza
• vigilare

Noun

vigilante m or f by sense (plural vigilanti)

1. security guard
2. vigilante

Anagrams

• vigliante

Latin

Participle

vigilante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of vigilāns

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vigilantem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vi.ʒiˈlɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vi.ʒiˈlɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vi.ʒiˈlɐ̃.te/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vi.ʒiˈlɐ̃.tɨ/, /vɨ.ʒiˈlɐ̃.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vi.ʒiˈlɐ̃.tɨ/, /vɨ.ʒiˈlɐ̃.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bi.ʒiˈlɐ̃.tɨ/, /bɨ.ʒiˈlɐ̃.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lan‧te

Adjective

vigilante m or f (plural vigilantes)

1. vigilant; watchful; observant (alert and paying close attention)

Derived terms

• vigilantemente

Related terms

• vigilância
• vigiar

Noun

vigilante m or f by sense (plural vigilantes)

1. a person whose job is to watch over something; a security guard

   Synonyms: segurança, vigia

Further reading

• “vigilante” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bixiˈlante/ [bi.xiˈlãn̪.t̪e]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: vi‧gi‧lan‧te

Adjective

vigilante m or f (masculine and feminine plural vigilantes)

1. watchful, alert, wakeful

   Synonyms: alerta, listo

Derived terms

• vigilantemente

 

Noun

vigilante m or f by sense (plural vigilantes)

1. guard, watchman

   Synonym: guarda

Derived terms

• vigilante de seguridad
• vigilante jurado

 

Related terms

• vigilancia
• vigilar

 

Further reading

• “vigilante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English vigilante, from Spanish vigilante, from Latin vigilāns. Doublet of bihilante. Used due to Tagalog-English code-switching (Taglish).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /vid͡ʒiˈlante/ [vɪ.d͡ʒɪˈlan̪.t̪ɛ]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /bid͡ʒiˈlante/ [bɪ.d͡ʒɪˈlan̪.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: vi‧gi‧lan‧te

Noun

vigilante (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔ᜌᜒᜎᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. vigilante
2. a person suspected to be involved in extrajudicial killings in the drug war in the Philippines from 2016

See also

• salvage

Further reading

• “vigilante”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018