menarche
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English
Etymology
First attested 1900, from German Menarche, formed from New Latin meno- (“menstruation”), from Attic Greek μήν (mḗn, “month”) + Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning”).
Pronunciation
Noun
menarche (plural menarches)
- The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period.
- Synonym: menophania
- Antonym: menopause
- Coordinate terms: spermarche, thelarche
- 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
- How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.
- 1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 252:
- The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102:
- Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.
Translations
first menstruation
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