veglio

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛʎ.ʎo/
• Stress: vèglio
• Hyphenation: ve‧glio

From Old Occitan vielh, from Vulgar Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus, whence also Italian vecchio (“old”).
Cognate with French vieux, Portuguese velho, Romanian vechi, and Spanish viejo.

• ueglio (obsolete)

veglio (feminine singular veglia, masculine plural vegli, feminine plural veglie)

1. (obsolete, poetic, chiefly of people) old

   Synonym: vecchio

   Antonym: giovane

   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere‎, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, lines 1–4, page 379:

     Diceami spesso il mio fidato speglio, ¶ L’animo stanco e la cangiata scorza ¶ E la scemata mia destrezza e forza: ¶ Non ti nasconder più; tu se’ pur veglio.

     Often my faithful mirror shows me my weary spirit, and my altered skin, and my weakened skill and strength, saying: ‘Don’t fool yourself any more: you are old.’

   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland]‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 234:

     E per gli molti eſempi che gia letto ¶ De capitani hauea del tempo ueglio ¶ Com’huom, ch’amaua ſopra ogni diletto ¶ D’udir hiſtorie, e farne al uiuer ſpeglio

     And for the many examples he already read about, of the captains of the old times, as a man who, above all pleasures, loved to hear stories about them, and mirror them in life.

veglio m (plural vegli)

1. (obsolete, poetic) old man

   Synonym: vecchio

   Antonym: giovane

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto I, lines 28–33, page 8:

     Com’ io da loro sguardo fui partito, ¶ un poco me volgendo a l’altro polo, ¶ là onde ’l Carro già era sparito, ¶ vidi presso di me un veglio solo, ¶ degno di tanta reverenza in vista, ¶ che più non dee a padre alcun figliuolo.

     When from regarding them I had withdrawn, turning a little to the other pole, there where the Wain had disappeared already, I saw beside me an old man alone, worthy of so much reverence in his look, that more owes not to father any son.

Palatalization of vello (“fleece”), from Latin vellus.

veglio m (plural vegli)

1. Obsolete form of vello.
   • 14^th century, Giovanni dalle Celle, Lettere‎, published 1845, page 116:

     Ancora nel Vecchio Testamento è figurato questo nel veglio di Gedeone, il quale fu prima pieno di rugiada di grazia, e tutto l’altro mondo era secco, e maladetto

     This is seen again, in the Old Testament, with Gideon's fleece, which was first covered in dew by grace, while the rest of the world was dry and cursed

• IPA^(key): /ˈveʎ.ʎo/
• Stress: véglio
• Hyphenation: ve‧glio

See the etymology of the main entry.

veglio

1. first-person singular present indicative of vegliare

• levigo, levigò, voglie

• veglio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwe.ɡli.oː/, [ˈwɛ.ɡli.oː]

vegliō m (genitive vegliōnis); third declension

1. Alternative form of veglō

Third declension.

• Vegliones in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)