virago

Borrowed from Latin virāgō (“warlike or heroic woman”, literally “manlike”).

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈɹɑːɡəʊ/
• Hyphenation: vi‧ra‧go

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virago (plural viragos or viragoes)

1. A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation.

   Synonyms: shrew, termagant; see also Thesaurus:shrew

   • 1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:

     Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, chapter III, in Nothing Like the Sun:

     Joan was all Arden, grinning there, siding with her virago mother.

2. A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated.

   Synonyms: shrew; see also Thesaurus:shrew

3. A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive.

• viraginian
• viraginity
• viraginous
• virago sleeve

• virtue

Borrowed from Latin virāgō.

• IPA^(key): /vi.ʁa.ɡo/

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virago f (plural viragos)

1. virago

• “virago”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Latin virāgō.

• IPA^(key): /viˈra.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: vi‧rà‧go

virago f (usually invariable, plural (literary) viragini)

1. amazon

• argivo, giravo, rigavo, rogavi, vagirò

From vir (“man”) +‎ -āgō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iˈraː.ɡoː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈra.ɡo/,

virāgō f (genitive virāginis); third declension

1. a female warrior, a warlike woman
2. a woman
3. a wife

Third-declension noun.

• → Italian: virago
• → English: virago
• → French: virago
• → German: Virago
• → Portuguese: virago

• “virago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “virago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• virago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• virago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin virāgō.

• Hyphenation: vi‧ra‧go

virago f (plural viragos)

1. (derogatory) a manly woman

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virago

1. plural of kirago