User:Silence~enwiktionary/vigil

English
 vigil

Etymology
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
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
watch


 * Nederlands: Waak, Wake
 * German: Wache

Latin
 vigil

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

Derived terms

 * vigil
 * vigilant
 * vigilante