vagina

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: vəjīʹnə, IPA^(key): /vəˈdʒaɪnə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or vaginæ)

1. (anatomy) The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals.
   • 1991, Mark M. Jones, Human Reproductive Biology (page 61)

     The epithelial lining of the vagina consists of many layers of flattened cells. Changes in the condition of these cells during the menstrual cycle can be detected by swabbing the lining and looking at the cells under a microscope.

2. (zoology) A similar part in some invertebrates.
3. (botany) A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
4. (colloquial) The vulva.

Anagrams

• Gavina

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet beina.

Noun

vagina f (plural vagines)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/

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• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina f (plural vagina's, diminutive vaginaatje n)

1. vagina

   Synonym: schede

Etymology

vagino +‎ -a

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈɡina/

Adjective

vagina (accusative singular vaginan, plural vaginaj, accusative plural vaginajn)

1. vaginal

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet guaina.

Noun

vagina f (plural vagine)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Anagrams

• ignava, naviga, vangai

Alternative forms

• uāgīna

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /waːˈɡiː.na/

Noun

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. sheath, scabbard
   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.44

     Avertit hic casus vaginam et gladium educere conanti dextram moratur manum, impeditumque hostes circumsistunt.

     This circumstance turns aside his scabbard and obstructs his right hand when attempting to draw his sword: the enemy crowd around him when [thus] embarrassed.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.579

     Dixit, vaginaque eripit ensem fulmineum, strictoque ferit retinacula ferro.

     He said, and from its scabbard forth he flashed the lightning of his sword, with his sword he struck the hawsers.

   Mitte gladium in vaginam. ― Put the sword into its sheath.

   Gladium vāgina proripere. ― To draw a sword from the sheath hastily.

2. covering, sheath, holder of any thing

   Omnia principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit natura.

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   Cremato eo (corpore), inimici ... remeanti animae veluti vaginam ademerint.

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3. sheath of an ear of grain, etc., the hull, husk
4. female vagina
5. sheath of a claw, in cats

References

• vagina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vagina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vagina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sheath one's sword: gladium in vaginam recondere
    
• vagina in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vagina in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “vagina” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vagina.

Noun

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer, definite plural vaginaene)

1. (anatomy) vagina

References

• “vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vagina.

Noun

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer or vaginaar, definite plural vaginaene or vaginaane)

1. (anatomy) vagina

References

• “vagina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina f

1. (anatomy) vagina

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet bainha; compare also vagem.

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡǐːna/
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaˈɡíːna/
• Tonal orthography: vagı̑na

Noun

vagína f (genitive vagíne, nominative plural vagíne)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet vaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈxina/

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. vagina