vigilant

Etymology

From French vigilant or its source, Latin vigilans, present participle of vigilare (“stay awake”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of vigilante, from Spanish. Displaced Old English wacor.

adj

  1. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
    Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.
  2. (heraldry, rare) In vigilance.
    von der LUTKE / Argent, a crane vigilant proper. AG. Carl von der Lutke. Arr. 1857 with the British German Crimea legion. Obtained a grant of land in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony. 1972, C. Pama, Heraldry of South African Families: Coats of Arms/ Crests/ Ancestry
    … and sharing the same heraldry : argent, a crane, vigilant, or,[…] 1997, Saint Thomas More, More to Cranevelt, Leuven University Press, page 23

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