English

Noun

vagus ‎(plural vagi)

1. The vagus nerve.

Noun

vagus ‎(plural vagi)

1. (Catholic) A homeless person or vagrant.
   • 1922, "Domicile", The Catholic encyclopedia, page 270

     Though not referred in the Code as a domicile of origin, a child's place of origin is fixed by the place where his father had his domicile or, in defect of domicile, his quasi-domicile when the child was born, or where the mother had hers if the child was illegitimate or posthumous; if the parents were vagi it is the place where the child was born; if the child was a foundling the place where it was discovered.

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Italic *wāðō, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- in the sense of "breaking away with straightforward motion."^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwa.ɡus/, [ˈwa.ɡʊs]

Adjective

vagus m ‎(feminine vaga, neuter vagum); first/second declension

1. wandering, rambling, strolling
2. (figuratively) uncertain, vague

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Czech: vágní
• Dutch: vaag
• English: vague
• French: vague
• Galician: vago
• Italian: vago
• Portuguese: vago
• Spanish: vago
• Slovak: vágny

References

• vagus in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• vagus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

References

• vagus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vagus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VAGUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vagus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the planets: stellae errantes, vagae
    

1. ↑ Franco, Comparative etymological Dictionary of classical Indo-European languages: Indo-European - Sanskrit - Greek - Latin, p. 402