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Latin
Noun
foemina f (genitive foeminae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) Misspelling of femina.
- 1512, Charles de Bovelles, Elementorum Physicorum, Book IX, Ch iii, Propositiones 1 & 2:
1. Sensibiles substantiae: trina partium dyade dispescuntur. Aliae equidem sunt naturalis earum generationis partes ut quae secundum sexum attenduntur velut masculus et foemina. Aliae sunt partes naturalis compositionis: ut materia et forma. Aliae quae ad totius integritatem spectant: ut caput: brachia: tibiae: pedes: et cuncta corporis membra.
2. Generationis partes masculus et foemina: partes sunt speciei: non autem partes individui. quandoquidem masculus et foemina: non idem individuum conflant. sed tantum et eiusdem speciei sunt: et sibiinvicem ob consimilis individui generationem copulantur.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1516, Thomas More, Utopia, Book II, "De legibus Utopiensium"
Foemina non ante annum duodevicesimum nubit.- A woman is not married before the age of eighteen.
1639, Iohann Stalen, Papissa Monstrosa, et Mera Fabula: siue Dissertatio Historicotheologica: , page 116:Maneat ergo manifeſtum hac tertia annorum Centuria nullum vere, & indubitate produci teſtem pro Papiſſa fœmina.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
First-declension noun.