vigilia Latin · revision 9961

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la vigil}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [wɪˈɡɪ.li.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [viˈd͡ʒiː.li.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vigilia''' ''f'' (genitive vigiliae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A syncopated ''vigl-'' appears in an inscription.^(OLD 2012)

+ Varro has a neuter ''vigilium''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vigil|-ia|t1=awake, watchful]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Plautus, of keeping watch.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant keeping watch, a guard or patrol; from Caecilius one of the four watches into which the night was divided; from Cicero watchful attention, vigilance, and wakefulness, sleeplessness, as also in Celsus.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a night watch and the eve of a feast.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a vigil, a night spent in prayer, especially before certain feasts.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives as Italian ''veglia'' and French ''veille'', and English ''vigil'' (mid-13th century, “eve of a religious festival”) is from it through Old French.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a watch.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 230/220–168 BC – Caecilius uses it of a division of the night.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of vigilance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-13th century – English ''vigil'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Keeping [[m|en|watch]]; a guard, patrol.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A watch, one of the four divisions of the night.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|vigilance|alt=Vigilance]], watchfulness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|wakefulness|alt=Wakefulness]], sleeplessness.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|vigil]], the eve of a feast.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vigil]]

+ * [[vigilō]]

+ * [[vigilāns]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}