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English
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin vagus (“wandering, rambling, strolling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈveɪ.ɡəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪɡəs
Noun
vagus (plural vagi)
- (Roman Catholicism) A homeless person or vagrant.
- 1922, “Domicile”, in Charles George Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume 17, page 270:
- Though not referred in the Code as a domicile of origin, a child's place of origin is fixed by the place where his father had his domicile or, in defect of domicile, his quasi-domicile when the child was born, or where the mother had hers if the child was illegitimate or posthumous; if the parents were vagi it is the place where the child was born; if the child was a foundling the place where it was discovered.
- (neuroanatomy) Ellipsis of vagus nerve.
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Finnish
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vagus
- (medicine, in compounds) vagus, vagus nerve
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Latin
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