veiller
French
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To stay up, sit up.
- (intransitive) To keep guard, keep watch.
- (intransitive) To look after, see to ( + à); see to it that ( + à ce que)
- (intransitive) To watch over (someone) ( + sur).
- (transitive) To keep watch over a sick person at night; to do a death wake for.
- (intransitive) To go out in the evening, e.g. in parties, clubs, bars...
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French veiller inherited from Old French veillier inherited from Latin *viglāre, vigilāre.
Origin
Latin
vigilāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *viglāre Latin
- vigilare Latin
- vigilo, vigilare Latin
- vigilāre Latin
- vigilare Italian
- surveillance French
- surveiller French
- veilleur French
- vigilar Spanish, Castilian
- surveillier Old French
- veillier Old French
- desvetllar Catalan, Valencian
- vetllar Catalan, Valencian
- vigilar Catalan, Valencian
- supraveghea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- veghea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- villi Norman
- veiller Middle French
- vigiar Old Portuguese
- veglâ Friulian
- velhar Old Occitan
- vejur Dalmatian
- veye Mauritian Creole
- tôtevillon Bourguignon
- voillai Bourguignon
- surveillé Louisiana Creole French
- veye Seychellois Creole