veglio

See also: vegliò

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Occitan vielh, from Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus, whence also Italian vecchio. Cognate with French vieux, Portuguese velho, Romanian vechi, and Spanish viejo.

Alternative forms

• ueglio (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʎ.ʎo/
• Rhymes: -ɛʎʎo
• Hyphenation: vè‧glio

Adjective

veglio (feminine veglia, masculine plural vegli, feminine plural veglie)

1. (obsolete, poetic) old (chiefly of people)

   Synonym: vecchio

   Antonym: giovane

   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere‎^[1], Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 379, lines 1–4:

     Diceami spesso il mio fidato speglio,
     L’animo stanco e la cangiata scorza
     E la scemata mia destrezza e forza:
     Non ti nasconder più; tu se’ pur veglio.

     Often my faithful mirror shows me my weary spirit, and my altered skin, and my weakened skill and strength, saying: ‘Don’t fool yourself any more: you are old.’

   • 16^th c., Ludovico Ariosto, Cinque Canti‎^[2], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 234:

     E per gli molti esempi che gia letto
     De capitani havea del tempo veglio
     Com’huom, ch’amava sopra ogni diletto
     D’udir historie, e farne al viver speglio

     And for the many examples he already read about, of the captains of the old times, as a man who, above all pleasures, loved to hear stories about them, and mirror them in life.

Noun

veglio m (plural vegli, feminine veglia)

1. (obsolete, poetic) old man

   Synonym: vecchio

   Antonym: giovane

   • early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎^[3], lines 31–33; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[4], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     vidi presso di me un veglio solo,
     degno di tanta reverenza in vista,
     che più non dee a padre alcun figliuolo.

     I saw near me an old man alone, worthy of so much reverence in his look, that more owes not to father any son.

Derived terms

• vegliardo

Etymology 2

From Latin vellus. Doublet of vello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʎ.ʎo/
• Rhymes: -ɛʎʎo
• Hyphenation: vè‧glio

Noun

veglio m (plural vegli)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of vello
   • 14^th century, Giovanni dalle Celle, Lettere‎^[5], published 1845, page 116:

     Ancora nel Vecchio Testamento è figurato questo nel veglio di Gedeone, il quale fu prima pieno di rugiada di grazia, e tutto l’altro mondo era secco, e maladetto

     This is seen again, in the Old Testament, with Gideon's fleece, which was first covered in dew by grace, while the rest of the world was dry and cursed

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈveʎ.ʎo/
• Rhymes: -eʎʎo
• Hyphenation: vé‧glio

Verb

veglio

1. first-person singular present indicative of vegliare

Further reading

• veglio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• levigo, levigò, voglie

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯e.ɡli.oː/, [ˈu̯ɛɡlʲioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.ɡli.o/, [ˈvɛːɡlio]

Noun

vegliō m (genitive vegliōnis); third declension

1. Alternative form of veglō

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vegliō	vegliōnēs
Genitive	vegliōnis	vegliōnum
Dative	vegliōnī	vegliōnibus
Accusative	vegliōnem	vegliōnēs
Ablative	vegliōne	vegliōnibus
Vocative	vegliō	vegliōnēs

References

• Vegliones 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)