vigilante

See also: Vigilante

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪdʒɪˈlænti/, /vɪdʒɪˈlɑːnteɪ/

Noun

vigilante (plural vigilantes)

1. A person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction.

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

• Dutch: lid van een waakzaamheidscomité, verontruste burger
• Faroese: sjálvrættarmaður
• Finnish: omankädenoikeuden käyttäjä
• French: justicier (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Mitglied einer Bürgerwehr n; (rare) Vigilant m
• 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)
• 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 m (xunvɛjbín) (hongweibing), черносо́тенец (ru) m (černosótenec) (historically member of "Black Hundred"), охотноря́дец (ru) m (oxotnorjádec), погро́мщик (ru) m (pogrómščik)

Anagrams

• genitival

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French

Adjective

vigilante

1. feminine singular of vigilant

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Verb

vigilante

1. present participle of vigilare

Adjective

1. vigilant, watchful, alert

Synonyms

• vigile, attento

Related terms

• vigilanza
• vigilare

Noun

vigilante m or f (plural vigilanti)

1. security guard
2. vigilante

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) vigilante

1. ablative masculine singular of vigilāns
2. ablative feminine singular of vigilāns
3. ablative neuter singular of vigilāns

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Adjective

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

Noun

1. a person whose job is to watch over something

Related terms

• vigilância
• vigilar

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Adjective

vigilante m or f (masculine and feminine plural vigilantes)

1. watchful, alert, wakeful

Noun

vigilante m or f (plural vigilantes)

1. guard, watchman

Related terms

• vigilancia
• vigilar

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vigilante

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bidʒiˈlante/

Noun

vigilante

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

Related terms

• salvage