User:Silence~enwiktionary/vigil

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English

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vigil

Etymology

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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

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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

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watch

Latin

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vigil

Etymology

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

Adjective

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vigil

  1. awake, watching, alert

Noun

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vigil m (plural: vigiles)

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

Inflection

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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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