femina

See also: fémina

Contents

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

femino (“woman”) +‎ -a

AdjectiveEdit

femina (accusative singular feminan, plural feminaj, accusative plural feminajn)

1. feminine (of women), women's

Usage notesEdit

Relatively uncommon; the synonym virina is generally used instead.

SynonymsEdit

• virina

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IdoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English feminine, French féminin, Italian femminile, Spanish femenino, from Latin fēminīnus from fēmina (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“who sucks”).

AdjectiveEdit

femina

1. female, feminine

Derived termsEdit

• femino (“female”)
• feminala (“female”)
• feminalo (“feminine gender”)
• feminismo (“feminism”)

AntonymsEdit

• maskula (“male, masculine”)

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InterlinguaEdit

NounEdit

femina (plural feminas)

1. woman

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LatinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), the feminine mediopassive participle of *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Related to fīlius, fellō, fētus.

Alternative formsEdit

• foemina (Medieval Latin)

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.mi.na/, [ˈfeː.mɪ.na]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mi.na/, [ˈfeː.mi.na]

• Audio (Classical)

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NounEdit

fēmina f (genitive fēminae); first declension

1. woman
2. wife
3. (of animals) female
4. (grammar) the feminine gender

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fēmina	fēminae
genitive	fēminae	fēminārum
dative	fēminae	fēminīs
accusative	fēminam	fēminās
ablative	fēminā	fēminīs
vocative	fēmina	fēminae

SynonymsEdit

• (woman): mulier
• (grammar): genus femininum

Derived termsEdit

• fēmella
• fēmellārius
• fēminātus
• fēmineus

• fēminīnē
• fēminīnus
• fēminō

DescendantsEdit

• Albanian: femër
• Aromanian: feamin
• Asturian: fema
• Catalan: fembra
• Dalmatian: femia
• Franco-Provençal: fena
• French: femme
• Friulian: femine
• Galician: femia
• Istriot: fimana
• Italian: femmina

• Ladin: femena
• Occitan: femna
• Old Provençal: femna
• Portuguese: fêmea
• Romanian: famen
• Romansch: femna
• Sardinian: fémina
• Sicilian: fimmina
• Spanish: hembra, fémina
• Venetian: fémena
• Walloon: feme

Etymology 2Edit

See femur.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mi.na/, [ˈfɛ.mɪ.na]

NounEdit

femina

1. nominative plural of femur
2. accusative plural of femur
3. vocative plural of femur

ReferencesEdit

• fēmĭna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• femina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “femina”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “fēmĭna” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)