vigilans

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English vigilance, from Middle French vigilance, from Latin vigilantia.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /viˈɡilans/ [fiˈɡi.lans]
  • Rhymes: -ilans
  • Syllabification: vi‧gi‧lans

Noun

vigilans (plural vigilans-vigilans)

  1. (healthcare) vigilance

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of vigilō.

Pronunciation

Participle

vigilāns (genitive vigilantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. watching (e.g. through the night)
  2. vigilant, watchful, alert

Declension

Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative vigilāns vigilantēs vigilantia
genitive vigilantis vigilantium
dative vigilantī vigilantibus
accusative vigilantem vigilāns vigilantēs
vigilantīs
vigilantia
ablative vigilante
vigilantī1
vigilantibus
vocative vigilāns vigilantēs vigilantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

Adjective

vigilāns (genitive vigilantis, comparative vigilantior, superlative vigilantissimus, adverb vigilanter); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. vigilant, watchful

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Descendants

  • English: vigilant, vigilante (via Spanish)
  • French: vigilant
  • Galician: vixiante, vixilante
  • Italian: vigilante
  • Piedmontese: vigilant
  • Portuguese: vigilante
  • Romanian: vigilent
  • Sicilian: vigghianti (from *viliantem)
  • Spanish: vigilante

References

  • vigilans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vigilans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vigilans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.