different between vags vs vagus

English

Verb

vags

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vag

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English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin vagus (“wandering, rambling, strolling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?.??s/
• Rhymes: -e???s

Noun

vagus (plural vagi)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant.
2. (neuroanatomy) Ellipsis of vagus nerve.

Related terms

• vague

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. De Vaan suggests from Proto-Italic *wagos, from Proto-Indo-European *Hwogos, and compares this form to Old Norse vakka (“to totter”), Old High German wankon (“to totter”), winkan (“to waver, stagger”), Old English wincian (“to nod”). Compare with Ancient Greek ???? (ókhos), Old English wa?ian, English wag, and English vag (the verb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a.?us/, [?u?ä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.?us/, [?v???us]

Adjective

vagus (feminine vaga, neuter vagum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (literally) wandering, rambling, strolling, roving, roaming, unfixed, unsettled, vagrant

   Synonym: err?bundus

2. (figuratively) wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant, doubtful, uncertain, vague

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• vagus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• vagus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vagus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vagus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.