vigilia

From Latin vigilia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiɡiliɑ/, [ˈʋiɡiˌliɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧gi‧li‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): vi‧gi‧lia

vigilia

1. vigil

• “vigilia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

vigilia (plural vigilias)

1. vigil

• IPA^(key): /viˈd͡ʒi.lja/
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Hyphenation: vi‧gì‧lia

vigilia f (plural vigilie)

1. vigil
2. eve (day before another specified)

• vigilai, vigliai

From vigil.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɪˈɡɪ.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈd͡ʒiː.li.a]

vigilia f (genitive vigiliae); first declension

1. watch, vigil
2. wakefulness
3. city guard, constabulary, police
4. (military, with prīma, secunda, tertia, quārta) a section of night-time, itself divided into four season-dependent vigiliae (the longer the night, the longer the vigilia)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.12:

     Ubi per exploratores Caesar certior factus est tres iam partes copiarum Helvetios id flumen traduxisse, quartam vero partem citra flumen Ararim reliquam esse, de tertia vigilia cum legionibus tribus e castris profectus ad eam partem pervenit quae nondum flumen transierat.

     When Caesar was made certain that the Helvetii had already conveyed three parts of their army across the river, that a fourth part was still on the other side of the Saone, he broke camp during the third watch (loosely between 12 p.m. and 3 a.m.) to join the same host that had yet to cross the streams.

First-declension noun.

• “vigilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vigilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vigilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to place a close line of sentry-posts: vigilias crebras ponere (Sall. Iug. 45. 2)
    
  • to mount guard in the camp: vigilias agere in castris (Verr. 4. 43)
    
  • to make the round of the sentries: circumvenire vigilias (Sall. Iug. 45. 2)
    

• IPA^(key): /viˈd͡ʒilja/

vigilia f (plural vigilie)

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Borrowed from Latin vigilia.

• IPA^(key): /biˈxilja/ [biˈxi.lja]
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Syllabification: vi‧gi‧lia

vigilia f (plural vigilias)

1. wakefulness, being awake
2. watchfulness
3. vigil
4. (religion) fast, abstinence
5. night shift
6. eve (the day or night before)

   Synonym: víspera

• “vigilia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024