different between hazard vs vigia

English

Etymology

From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), probably from Arabic ?????????? (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?hæz?d/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?haz?d/

Noun

hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)

1. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.]
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation

     Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard.
2. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.]

3. (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
4. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6. (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
7. Chance. [from 16th c.]
8. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
9. (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
10. (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

Synonyms

• (chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (chance of suffering harm): adventure
• (anything hazarded or risked): bet, pledge, skin in the game, wager

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hazard (third-person singular simple present hazards, present participle hazarding, simple past and past participle hazarded)

1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
   • a. 1676, John Clarke, Excuses of the Irreligious

     o be consistent , you ought to be a Chriftian in temper and practice ; for you hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     He hazards his neck to the halter.

2. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.
   • They hazard to cut their feet.

   I'll hazard a guess.

Translations

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hasard, from Old French hasart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?azart/

Noun

hazard m

1. gambling
2. risk, gamble

Declension

References

French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

1. Archaic spelling of hasard, chiefly used before 1800

Italian

Noun

hazard m (invariable)

1. hazard lights (on a vehicle)

Middle French

Noun

hazard m (plural hazards)

1. hazard; obstacle

Descendants

• French: hasard

Polish

Etymology

From French hasard, from Old French hasart, from Arabic ?????????? (az-zahr, “the dice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.zart/

Noun

hazard m inan

1. (singular only) gambling
2. (electronics) race condition

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French hasard.

Noun

hazard n (plural hazarduri)

1. hazard

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?zard/
• Hyphenation: ha?zard

Noun

hàzard m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. gamble, gambling
2. risk, hazard

Declension

English

Etymology

From Spanish vigía (“lookout; reef”), from Portuguese vigia, ultimately from Latin vigilare.

Noun

vigia (plural vigias)

1. (nautical) A warning on a navigational chart indicating a possible reef or other hazard of unknown exact location.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.?i.a/, [?u???iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.d??i.a/, [?vi?d??i?]

Noun

vigia f (genitive vigiae); first declension

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Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• vigia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 1. CISA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

Back-formation from vigiar.

Noun

vigia f (plural vigias)

1. watch; lookout

   Synonym: vigilância

2. watchtower

   Synonym: atalaia

3. peephole

Descendants

• Spanish: vigía

Noun

vigia m, f (plural vigias)

1. sentinel; lookout (referring to a person, a sentry or guard)

   Synonyms: guarda, sentinela

Verb

vigia

1. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of vigiar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of vigiar