vaga-, vag-

(Latin: wander, move around)


extravagance
extravagant
morbus errorum (vagabondus)
1. Vagrants' disease or a parasitic melanoderma or excoriations and melanoderma caused by scratching the bites of body louse; pediculus corporis.
2. Discoloration of the skin in people who are subject to louse bites over long periods of time.
Nervus vagus
solivagant
1. Wandering about alone.
2. Characterized by going alone.
vagabond
1. A wanderer who has no permanent place to live; nomadic.
2. A person without a permanent home who moves from place to place.
3. A beggar for food or money.
4. Irregular in course or behavior; unpredictable.
vagabondage
Traveling around without any clear destination.
vagary
vagrancy
1. The state of wandering from place to place.
2. Having no permanent home or means of livelihood.
vague
1. Not clear in meaning or intention: "The travel agent made a vague schedule for our tour."
2. Not having a clear or perceptible form: "We could only see a vague form in the shadows of the forest."
3. Not clearly felt, understood, or recalled: "My mother only had a vague recollection of what happened."
4. Unclear or incoherent in thinking or expression.
5. Etymology: from Middle French vague, from Latin vagus, "wandering, rambling, vacillating".
vagulate
To wander in a vague manner; to waver.
vagus (s), vagi (pl)
1. A mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera.
2. Either of the tenth pair of cranial nerves that carry sensory and motor neurons serving the heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, and various other organs.
3. Wandering; applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve.

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