vigilans

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of vigilō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.ɡi.lans/, [ˈu̯ɪɡɪɫ̪ä̃ːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.d͡ʒi.lans/, [ˈviːd͡ʒiläns]

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.

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

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.