veglia

See also: Veglia

Italian

Etymology 1

From vegliare; cf. Latin vigila, French veille, Piedmontese vijà.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈveʎ.ʎa/
  • Rhymes: -eʎʎa
  • Hyphenation: vé‧glia

Noun

veglia f (plural veglie)

  1. vigil, watch
  2. all-night party or other gathering
  3. wake (feast after a person's death)
  4. wake (period after a person's death before the body is buried)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈveʎ.ʎa/
  • Rhymes: -eʎʎa
  • Hyphenation: vé‧glia

Verb

veglia

  1. inflection of vegliare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈveʎ.ʎa/, (traditional) /ˈvɛʎ.ʎa/[1]
  • Rhymes: -eʎʎa, (traditional) -ɛʎʎa
  • Hyphenation: vé‧glia, (traditional) vè‧glia

Adjective

veglia (obsolete, poetic)

  1. feminine singular of veglio

Noun

veglia f (plural veglie) (obsolete, poetic)

  1. female equivalent of veglio: old woman

References
  1. veglia in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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