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vigil
English
Etymology
From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *we?- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). See also wake, from the same root.
Related to vigor, and more distantly compare vis and vital, from similar Proto-Indo-European roots and meanings (lively, power, life), via Latin. For use of “live, alive” in sense “watching”, compare qui vive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?d??l/
- Rhymes: -?d??l
Noun
vigil (plural vigils)
- An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
- A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
- His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident.
- The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
- A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.
- The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held.
Synonyms
- (watch, especially at night): lookout, look-out, qui vive, watch
Related terms
- vigilance
- vigilant
- vigilation
- vigilous
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *we?- (“to be strong, lively, awake”), whence vige?.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?i.?il/, [?u??????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?vi.d??il/, [?vi?d??il]
Adjective
vigil (genitive vigilis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- awake, watching, alert
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Noun
vigil m (genitive vigilis); third declension
- watchman, guard, sentinel; constable, fireman
- (in the plural) the watch, police, constabulary
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- vigilia
- vigil?
Descendants
References
- vigil in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vigil in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vigil in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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rosary
English
Alternative forms
- Rosary (only for the prayer)
Etymology
From Latin ros?rium, here in its sense as a garland of roses. The coin usage referred to the laurel wreath appearing on the obverse bust, as opposed to the bare head on the pollard. Doublet of Rosario.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??o?z??i/
Noun
rosary (plural rosaries)
- Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)
- A Roman Catholic devotion involving the repetition of a series of Marian prayers, usually 5, 15, or 20 decades of "Hail Marys", each decade beginning with "Our Father" and ending with "Glory Be to the Father", but sometimes including other Roman Catholic, Anglican, or Lutheran prayers.
- (by extension) A series or collection of thoughts, literary pieces, etc. intended for similar contemplation.
- 1654, Jeremy Taylor, XXVIII Sermons preached at Golden Grove […]
- Every day propound to yourself a rosary or a chaplet of good works to present to God at night.
- 1654, Jeremy Taylor, XXVIII Sermons preached at Golden Grove […]
- (historical numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a counterfeit debased form of the sterling silver penny of Edward I, at first accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
- A rose garden.
Translations
See also
- (13th-c. counterfeit coin): pollard, crockard, mitre, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle
Further reading
- rosary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- rosary (coin) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- rosaries on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Information about Rosaries
Anagrams
- Raysor
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