WAKE Copy link • WAKE 1. s. pervigilium, vigilia. 2. 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.