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English
Etymology
From Spanish vigía (“lookout; reef”), from Portuguese vigia, ultimately from Latin vigilare.
Noun
vigia (plural vigias)
- (nautical) A warning on a navigational chart indicating a reef or other hazard which has been reported but which has not been confirmed to exist, or whose exact location is unknown.
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
vigia f (genitive vigiae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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Cohæret ab ipso campo et ab ipsa capella da mane sanctæ Mariæ, da meridie Petri de Saravia: et area et ipsa capella cum eodem campo insimul per mensuram justam, cum Cisa sua vigias tres nominative, quas mihi campo ipso ante hos dies per chartam venditionis advenit.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Deverbal from vigiar.
Noun
vigia f (plural vigias)
- watch; lookout
- Synonym: vigilância
- watchtower
- Synonym: atalaia
- peephole
Descendants
Noun
vigia m or f by sense (plural vigias)
- sentinel; lookout (referring to a person, a sentry or guard)
- Synonyms: guarda, sentinela
Etymology 2
Verb
vigia
- inflection of vigiar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of viger
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of vigir
Spanish
Verb
vigia
- inflection of vigiar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative