vigiar

Meaning

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

Frequency

B2
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”).

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