virgo

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Ido

Noun

virgo (plural virgi)

  1. virgin

Hyponyms

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Related to virga (“young shoot”).

Pronunciation

Noun

virgō f (genitive virginis); third declension

  1. a maid, maiden, virgin (compare puella)
    Synonym: intāctus
    • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe :
      Mater virginis in medio est.
      The maiden's mother is alive.
    • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.37.63:
      cum Decimus quidam Verginius virginem filiam propter unius ex illis X viris intemperiem in foro sua manu interemisset
      that a certain Decimus Virginius was obliged, on account of the libidinous violence of one of these decemvirs, to stab his virgin daughter in the midst of the forum
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.289–290:
      quid mīrum, virgō sī virgine laeta ministrā
      admittit castās ad sua sacra manūs?
      What wonder if a virgin, delights in a virgin attendant, admits chaste hands to her sacred rites?
      (See Vesta (mythology); Vestalia.)
  2. (by extension) a young woman, girl
  3. (by extension, Ecclesiastical Latin, of the Church Fathers) a male virgin
  4. (by extension, of things) an adjectival appellative for unwedded, pure, unused

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative virgō virginēs
Genitive virginis virginum
Dative virginī virginibus
Accusative virginem virginēs
Ablative virgine virginibus
Vocative virgō virginēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “virgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “virgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • virgo 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)
  • virgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Pronunciation

Noun

virgo m (plural virgos)

  1. (singular only) Virgo, a constellation and sign in astrology
    Ella es virgo y nosotras sagitario.
    She is a Virgo but we're Sagitarius.
  2. hymen

Adjective

virgo (feminine virga, masculine plural virgos, feminine plural virgas)

  1. virgin
    No sabía que érais virgos.
    I didn't know you guys were virgins.
  2. (colloquial, El Salvador) funny and vulgar
    Ese siempre es virgo con sus chistes.
    That guy is always funny and vulgar with his jokes.

Further reading

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Noun

virgo

  1. Virgin.
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