Etymology

vigilante

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Today it means: A member of a vigilance committee. Full definition →

Spanish vigilante ← Latin vigilans
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromvigilans
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromvigilante“watchman, guard”
  3. English todayvigilante

Borrowed from Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), from Latin vigilans. Doublet of vigilant.

Words from the same roots

Latinvigilans all →

vigilant

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.