vigilant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French vigilant or its source, Latin vigilans, present participle of vigilare (stay awake), from vigil (awake). Doublet of vigilante, from Spanish. Displaced Old English wacor.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlənt/
  • Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lant
  • (file)

Adjective[edit]

vigilant (comparative more vigilant, superlative most vigilant)

  1. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
    Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.
  2. (heraldry, rare) In vigilance.
    • 1972, C. Pama, Heraldry of South African Families: Coats of Arms/ Crests/ Ancestry:
      von der LUTKE / Argent, a crane vigilant proper. AG. Carl von der Lutke. Arr. 1857 with the British German Crimea legion. Obtained a grant of land in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony.
    • 1997, Saint Thomas More, More to Cranevelt, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
      [...] and sharing the same heraldry : argent, a crane, vigilant, or, []

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Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem. First attested in 1696.[1]

Adjective[edit]

vigilant m or f (masculine and feminine plural vigilants)

  1. vigilant
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Noun[edit]

vigilant m or f by sense (plural vigilants)

  1. guard, watchman
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Verb[edit]

vigilant

  1. gerund of vigilar

References[edit]

  1. ^ vigilant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem.

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vigilant (feminine vigilante, masculine plural vigilants, feminine plural vigilantes)

  1. vigilant

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German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [viɡiˈlant]
  • Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lant
  • (file)

Adjective[edit]

vigilant (strong nominative masculine singular vigilanter, comparative vigilanter, superlative am vigilantesten)

  1. (dated) cunning, smart, clever
    Synonyms: clever, findig, gewieft, pfiffig, gerissen
  2. (higher register) watchful, alert, wary (Austria)
    Synonyms: wachsam, aufmerksam

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Further reading[edit]

  • vigilant” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • vigilant” in Duden online
  • vigilant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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vigilant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of vigilō