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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pervigilium.
Noun
pervigilium (uncountable)
- (obsolete, medicine, rare) Insomnia.
1733, John Allen, Synopsis medicinæ: or, a summary view of the whole practice of physick:A Pervigilium is sometimes a primary Distemper, without any other evident Sickness causing it; yet so that some bear up under it, without any considerable Disorder […]
1843, W. L. MacGregor, Practical Observations on the Principal Diseases Affecting the Health of the European and Native Soldiers in the North-western Provinces of India, page 44:Pervigilium, or want of sleep, is a most distressing and alarming symptom in fever, and appears to be the first link of that chain which includes delirium, coma, and effusion […] there is nothing more indicative of the severity of the disease than the inability to sleep.
Latin
Etymology
pervigil (“always watchful”) + -ium
Pronunciation
Noun
pervigilium n (genitive pervigiliī or pervigilī); second declension
- staying awake or sitting up all night
- devotional watching, vigil
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “pervigilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pervigilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pervigilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.