virgo

See also: Virgo

Latin

Etymology

Related to virga (“young shoot”).

Pronunciation

Noun

virgō f (genitive virginis); third declension

  1. a maid, maiden, virgin, sexually intact woman (compare puella)
    • 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
    • c. 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe
      Mater virginis in medio est.
      The maiden's mother is alive.
  2. (by extension) a young woman, girl
  3. (by extension, Ecclesiastical, of the Church Fathers) a male virgin
  4. (by extension, of things) an adjectival appellative for unwedded, pure, unused

Inflection

Third declension.

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Noun

virgo

  1. Virgin.
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