English → Latin
“wake” in Latin
pervigiliumstaying awake or sitting up all night; devotional watching, vigilvigiliawatch, vigil; wakefulness; city guard, constabulary, policesuscitōto lift up, raise, elevate; to encourage, stir up, awaken, wake up, arouse, set in motion, elevate, incite; to erect, buexpergīscorto awake, to wake up (bestir oneself)expergēfaciōto awaken, wake up; to rouse, arouse, exciteexcitōto call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon; to bring forth: to raise, build; to bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, stexsuscitōto awaken
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
wake s.
pervigilium, vigilia.
wake v.
Transitively, aliquem somno excitare, suscitare (Cic.): aliquem e somno expergefacere (Suet.); also, excitare, exsuscitare only (Cic.); suscitare aliquem (Plaut.). To wake anybody from the dead, aliquem excitare ab inferis, a mortuis; revocare aliquem ab inferis or a morte ad vitam; mortuum ab inferis excitare (Cic.).
Intransitively, expergisci; expergefieri; somno solvi. Vid. AWAKE, both Transitively and Intransitively.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for wake?
- The usual Latin words for “wake” are pervigilium, vigilia, suscitō; also expergīscor, expergēfaciō, excitō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.