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rev⋅eil⋅le

  [rev-uh-lee; Brit. ri-val-ee]
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–noun
1. a signal, as of a drum or bugle, sounded early in the morning to awaken military personnel and to alert them for assembly.
2. a signal to arise.
Origin:
1635–45; < F réveillez, pl. impv. of réveiller to awaken, equiv. to r(e)- re- + éveiller, OF esveillier ≪ L ēvigilāre to watch, be vigilant (ē- e- + vigilāre to watch; see vigil )
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rev·eil·le   (rěv'ə-lē)   
n.  

    1. The sounding of a bugle early in the morning to awaken and summon people in a camp or garrison.

    2. This bugle call or its equivalent.

    3. The first military formation of the day.

  2. A signal to get up out of bed.


[Alteration of French réveillez, second person pl. imperative of réveiller, to wake, from Old French resveiller : re-, re- + esveiller, to awake (from Vulgar Latin *exvigilāre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin vigilāre, to awake from vigil, awake; see weg- in Indo-European roots).]
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reveille 
1644, from Fr. réveillez (vous) "awaken!" imperative plural of réveiller "to awaken, to wake up," from M.Fr. re- "again" + eveiller "to rouse," from V.L. *exvigilare, from L. ex- "out" + vigilare "be awake, keep watch" (see vigil).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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