vagus
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin vagus (“wandering, rambling, strolling”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vagus (plural vagi)
- (Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant.
- 1922, “Domicile”, in The Catholic encyclopedia, page 270:
- Though not referred in the Code as a domicile of origin, a child's place of origin is fixed by the place where his father had his domicile or, in defect of domicile, his quasi-domicile when the child was born, or where the mother had hers if the child was illegitimate or posthumous; if the parents were vagi it is the place where the child was born; if the child was a foundling the place where it was discovered.
- The vagus nerve.
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. De Vaan suggests from Proto-Italic *wagos, from Proto-Indo-European *Hwog-o-s, and compares this form to Old Norse vakka (“to totter”), Old High German wankon (“to totter”), winkan (“to waver, stagger”), Old English wincian (“to nod”).[1] Compare with Old English waġian, English wag, and English vag (the verb).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯a.ɡus/, [ˈu̯äɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.ɡus/, [ˈväːɡus]
Adjective
vagus (feminine vaga, neuter vagum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | vagus | vaga | vagum | vagī | vagae | vaga | |
Genitive | vagī | vagae | vagī | vagōrum | vagārum | vagōrum | |
Dative | vagō | vagō | vagīs | ||||
Accusative | vagum | vagam | vagum | vagōs | vagās | vaga | |
Ablative | vagō | vagā | vagō | vagīs | |||
Vocative | vage | vaga | vagum | vagī | vagae | vaga |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vagus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 651
Further reading
- “vagus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “vagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vagus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the planets: stellae errantes, vagae
- the planets: stellae errantes, vagae
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