Vigil

Noun

 * 1) a watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person
 * 2) a period of observation or surveillance
 * 3) the eve of some religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions

Synonyms

 * lookout, look-out
 * qui vive
 * watch

Related terms

 * vigilance
 * vigilant

Thesaurus
Mass, alertness, all-night vigil, bedtime prayer, camp meeting, church, church service, compline, consciousness, custodianship, custody, devotions, divine service, duty, eagle eye, evening devotions, evensong, exercises, guard, guardedness, guardianship, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, invigilation, lauds, lidless vigil, liturgy, lookout, matins, meeting, monitoring, morning devotions, night song, none, nones, novena, observance, office, peeled eye, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prime, prime song, proctoring, prudence, public worship, qui vive, restlessness, revival, revival meeting, sentience, service, sext, sharp eye, sleeplessness, stewardship, surveillance, tent meeting, tierce, tossing and turning, undersong, vesper, vespers, vigilance, vigils, wake, wakefulness, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye

Etymology
vigile:, from vigile:, from  vigilia:, from vigil:, from.

Related to vigor:, and more distantly compare vis: and vital:, from similar Proto-Indo-European roots and meanings (lively, power, life), via Latin. For use of “live, alive” in sense “watching”, compare qui vive:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: Waak, Wake
 * Finnish: valvojaiset
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Korean: 밤샘 (bam-saem), 밤새움 (bam-saeum)
 * Polish: czuwanie
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: vartio, vartiovuoro
 * Greek:


 * Romanian: așteptare,


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Spanish:

Adjective
vigil


 * 1) awake, watching, alert

Noun
vigil (plural: vigiles)


 * 1) watchman, sentinel
 * 2)  the watch, police

Etymology
From.