# vigilant
## English
### Etymology

From French vigilant or its source, Latin vigilans, present participle of vigilare (“stay awake”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of vigilante, from Spanish. Displaced Old English wacor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlənt/
* Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lant
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Adjective

vigilant (comparative more vigilant, superlative most vigilant)
* Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
    Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.
* (heraldry, rare) In vigilance.
** 1972, C. Pama, Heraldry of South African Families: Coats of Arms/ Crests/ Ancestry:von der LUTKE / Argent, a crane vigilant proper. AG. Carl von der Lutke. Arr. 1857 with the British German Crimea legion. Obtained a grant of land in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony.
** 1997, Saint Thomas More, More to Cranevelt, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 23:[...] and sharing the same heraldry : argent, a crane, vigilant, or, […]

#### Synonyms

* (watchful): alert, aware, careful, circumspect, observant, on the qui vive, wakesome, wary, watchful

#### Derived terms

* pharmacovigilant
* vigilantly

#### Related terms

* vigil
* vigilance
* vigilante

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [bi.ʒiˈlan]
* IPA: (Balearic) [vi.ʒiˈlant]
* IPA: (Valencia) [vi.d͡ʒiˈlant]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem. First attested in 1696.

#### Adjective

vigilant m or f (masculine and feminine plural vigilants)
* vigilant

##### Derived terms

* vigilantment

##### Related terms

* vigilància
* vigilar

#### Noun

vigilant m or f by sense (plural vigilants)
* guard, watchman

##### Derived terms

* vigilant nocturn

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

vigilant
* gerund of vigilar

### References

* ↑ “vigilant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

### Further reading

* “vigilant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “vigilant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “vigilant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vi.ʒi.lɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

vigilant (feminine vigilante, masculine plural vigilants, feminine plural vigilantes)
* vigilant

#### Related terms

* vigiler

### Further reading

* “vigilant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [viɡiˈlant]
* Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lant
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

vigilant (strong nominative masculine singular vigilanter, comparative vigilanter, superlative am vigilantesten)
* (dated) cunning, smart, clever
    Synonyms: clever, findig, gewieft, pfiffig, gerissen
* (higher register) watchful, alert, wary (Austria)
    Synonyms: wachsam, aufmerksam

#### Derived terms

* Vigilant
* Vigilanz
* Vigilantismus

#### Related terms

* arrogant

### Further reading

* “vigilant” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “vigilant” in Duden online
* “vigilant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Latin
### Verb

vigilant
* third-person plural present active indicative of vigilō