vigiar

Meaning

1. to watch (to attend or guard)
2. to watch (to act as a lookout)
3. to observe something carefully

Hyphenated as

vi‧gi‧ar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vi.ʒiˈa(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vigiar, probably a semi-learned term derived from Latin vigilāre, from vigil (“alert; awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”).