Etymology

vigilance

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Today it means: Alert watchfulness. Full definition →

Middle French vigilance ← Latin vigilantia
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromvigilantia
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromvigilance
  3. English todayvigilance

Borrowed from Middle French vigilance, from Latin vigilantia.

Words from the same roots

Latinvigilantia all →

vigilancy

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.