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English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin vagus (“wandering, rambling, strolling”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vagus (plural vagi)
- (Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant.
1922, “Domicile”, in Charles George Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume 17, page 270:Though not referred in the Code as a domicile of origin, a child's place of origin is fixed by the place where his father had his domicile or, in defect of domicile, his quasi-domicile when the child was born, or where the mother had hers if the child was illegitimate or posthumous; if the parents were vagi it is the place where the child was born; if the child was a foundling the place where it was discovered.
- (neuroanatomy) Ellipsis of vagus nerve..
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. De Vaan suggests from Proto-Italic *wagos, from Proto-Indo-European *Hwogos, and compares this form to Old Norse vakka (“to totter”), Old High German wankon (“to totter”), winkan (“to waver, stagger”), Old English wincian (“to nod”). Compare with Ancient Greek ὄχος (ókhos), Old English waġian, English wag, and English vag (the verb).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vagus (feminine vaga, neuter vagum); first/second-declension adjective
- (literal) wandering, rambling, strolling, roving, roaming, unfixed, unsettled, vagrant
- Synonyms: errābundus, vagābundus
- vagus animis ― gone insane, gone mad
- (figuratively) wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant, doubtful, uncertain, vague
- undecided, fickle
- Synonyms: dubius, suspensus, incertus, anceps
- Antonyms: indubius, prōmptus, fixus
- vagus animi ― undecided mind
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants of vagus in other languages
References
- “vagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vagus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vagus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 651
Further reading
- “vagus”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “vagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vagus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the planets: stellae errantes, vagae