vigil

vig·il  (vjl)

n.

1.

a. A watch kept during normal sleeping hours.

b. The act or a period of observing; surveillance.

2. The eve of a religious festival observed by staying awake as a devotional exercise.

3. Ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day. Often used in the plural.

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[Middle English vigile, a devotional watching, from Old French, from Latin vigilia, wakefulness, watch, from vigil, awake; see weg- in Indo-European roots.]

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vigil [ˈvɪdʒɪl]

n

1. a purposeful watch maintained, esp at night, to guard, observe, pray, etc.

2. the period of such a watch

3. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) RC Church Church of England the eve of certain major festivals, formerly observed as a night spent in prayer: often marked by fasting and abstinence and a special Mass and divine office

4. (Medicine / Pathology) a period of sleeplessness; insomnia

[from Old French vigile, from Medieval Latin vigilia watch preceding a religious festival, from Latin: vigilance, from vigil alert, from vigēre to be lively]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	vigil - a period of sleeplessness wakefulness - a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world; "consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar"
	2.	vigil - the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) watch religious rite, rite - an established ceremony prescribed by a religion; "the rite of baptism" viewing, wake - a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" agrypnia - a vigil before certain feasts (as e.g. Easter) faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
	3.	vigil - a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe watch surveillance - close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) continuous receiver watch, listening watch - a watch established for the reception of traffic of interest to the unit maintaining the watch spying - keeping a secret or furtive watch

Translations

vigil [ˈvɪdʒɪl] N → vigilia f, vela f
to keep vigil (over sth/sb) → velar(algo/a algn)

vigil [ˈvɪdʒɪl] n → veille f
to hold a vigil → manifester en silence
to keep vigil → veiller

vigil

n

→ (Nacht)wache f; to keep vigil over somebody → bei jdm wachen; the dog kept vigil over his injured master → der Hund hielt bei seinem verletzten Herrn Wache; her long vigils at his bedside → ihr langes Wachen an seinem Krankenbett

(Rel) → Vigil f, → Nachtwache f

vigil [ˈvɪdʒɪl] n → veglia
to keep vigil → vegliare

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vigil [ˈvɪdʒɪl] n → veglia
to keep vigil → vegliare