vagus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowing from Latin vagus (“wandering, rambling, strolling”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈveɪ.ɡəs/ Homophone: Vegas Rhymes: -eɪɡəs === Noun === vagus (plural vagi) (Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant. (neuroanatomy) Ellipsis of vagus nerve. ==== Related terms ==== nervus vagus vague == Finnish == === Etymology === < Latin vagus === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʋɑɡus/, [ˈʋɑ̝ɡus̠] Rhymes: -ɑɡus Syllabification(key): va‧gus Hyphenation(key): va‧gus === Noun === vagus (medicine, in compounds) vagus, vagus nerve ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain. De Vaan suggests from Proto-Italic *wagos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Hwogos, and compares this form to Old Norse vakka (“to totter”), Old High German wankon (“to totter”), winkan (“to waver, stagger”), Old English wincian (“to nod”). Compare also with Lithuanian võgti (“to steal”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwa.ɡʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvaː.ɡus] === Adjective === vagus (feminine vaga, neuter vagum); first/second-declension adjective (literal) wandering, rambling, strolling, roving, roaming, unfixed, unsettled, vagrant Synonyms: errābundus, vagābundus vagus animis ― gone insane, gone mad (figuratively) wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant, doubtful, uncertain, vague undecided, fickle Synonyms: dubius, suspensus, incertus, anceps Antonyms: indubius, prōmptus, fixus vagus animi ― undecided mind ==== Inflection ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “vagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press vagus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vagus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “vagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "vagus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “vagus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.