virgo

See also: Virgo

Ido

Noun

virgo (plural virgi)

1. virgin

Hyponyms

• virgino (“female virgin”)
• virgulo (“male virgin”)

Latin

Alternative forms

• vircō (Early Latin)

Etymology

Related to virga (“young shoot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ir.ɡoː/, [ˈu̯ɪrɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvir.ɡo/, [ˈvirɡo]

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 [is there] if a virgin, [who] delights in [having] a virgin attendant, admits [only] 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
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.15:

     […] terram virginem […]

     […] virgin soil […]

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

• virgineus
• virginitās
• virginor
• virginālis
• virginārius

 

Descendants

• Albanian: virgjër
• Aromanian: virghirã
• Asturian: virxe
• Catalan: verge
• English: virgin
• Piedmontese: verzo, vergio
• Ligurian: verzo
• French: vierge
• Friulian: virgin
• Galician: virxe
• Italian: vergine
• Lithuanian: mergelė (calque)
• Occitan: verge
• Papiamentu: vírgen
• Portuguese: virgem
• Romanian: virgin, vergură
• Sicilian: vìrgini
• Spanish: virgen, virgo
• Walloon: viêdge

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾɡo/ [ˈbiɾ.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -iɾɡo
• Syllabification: vir‧go

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

• “virgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Noun

virgo

1. Virgin.