vigil: [13] Etymologically, to take part in a vigil, you have to be ‘alert’ and ‘awake’. The word comes via Old French vigile from Latin vigilia, which was derived from the adjective vigil ‘awake, alert’, so the notion underlying it is of staying awake to keep watch. Another derivative of the Latin adjective was vigilāre ‘keep watch’, which lies behind English reveille [17], surveillance [19], vigilant [15], and vigilante [19] (via Spanish). It came ultimately from the Indo-European base *wog-, *weg- ‘be lively or active’, which also produced English vigour, wake and watch. => reveille, surveillance, vigilante, vigour, wake, watch
vigil (n.)
c. 1200, "eve of a religious festival" (an occasion for devotional watching or observance), from Anglo-French and Old French vigile "watch, guard; eve of a holy day" (12c.), from Latin vigilia "a watch, watchfulness," from vigil "watchful, awake, on the watch, alert," from PIE root *weg- (2) "be lively or active, be strong" (cognates: Old English wacan "to wake up, arise," wacian "to be awake;" Old High German wahta "watch, vigil;" see wake (v.)). Meaning "watch kept on a festival eve" in English is from late 14c.; general sense of "occasion of keeping awake for some purpose" is recorded from 1711.
双语例句
1. She kept vigil at the bedside of her critically ill son.
她整夜都守在病重的儿子床边。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Mourners are to stage a candlelit vigil in Liverpool.
哀悼者准备在利物浦筹备举行一次烛光祈祷。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Outside the building people continue their vigil, huddling around bonfires.
在房子外面，人们挤在篝火旁边，继续守夜。
来自柯林斯例句
4. She kept a vigil at Patrick's bedside.
她在帕特里克的床边守夜。
来自柯林斯例句
5. They've rescheduled the vigil for February 14th.