vigil

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
2. A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
3. The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
4. A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.

Verb

To participate in a vigil.

Sinónimos

watch

⌚

wake

wakefulness

surveillance

agrypnia

remark

sentinel

shift

superintendence

vesper

vigilance

pernoctation

compliance

observation

night-waking

spending the night awake

comment

vigilance during the night

guard

💂

guardian

insomniac

observance

Traducións

veglia

vigilia

vigília

vela

🕯️

αγρυπνία

veille

vigilia

vigília

observation

Wache

Nachtwache

vetlla

montre

⌚

veillée

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈvɪd͡ʒəl/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: vigile

In summary

From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root.