Etymology

vagile

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Today it means: Free to move about. Full definition →

German vagil ← Latin vagus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromvagus“wandering”
  2. German · borrowed fromvagil
  3. English todayvagile

Borrowed from German vagil, from Latin vagus (“wandering”).

Words from the same roots

Latinvagus all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.