English

Etymology
ME. vigile ("a devotional watching"), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia ("wakefulness, watch"), from vigil ("awake"), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- ("to be strong").

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪd��l|-ɪd��l

Noun
en-noun

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
trans-top|watch
Finnish: yövartio
German: Wache
trans-mid
Korean: 밤� (bam-saem), 밤�� (bam-saeum)
Nederlands: Waak, Wake
trans-bottom

trans-top|a period of observation or surveillance
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|the eve of some religious festival
Finnish: aatto
trans-mid
trans-bottom

Latin

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

Adjective
vigil

1. awake, watching, alert

Noun
vigil m (plural: vigiles)

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

Inflection
ladecl3
la-decl-3rd|M|vigil|vigil

Category:Latin adjectives
Category:Latin nouns

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zh:vigil

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