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vigiar.

to watch (to attend or guard)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/vi.ʒiˈa(ʁ)/Brazil[vi.ʒiˈa(h)]Brazil/viˈʒja(ʁ)/Brazil[viˈʒja(h)]Brazil
  1. to watch (to attend or guard)

  2. to watch (to act as a lookout)

  3. to observe something carefully

Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese vigiar, probably a semi-learned term derived from Latin vigilāre, from vigil (“alert; awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong”).

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