virago
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin virāgō (“warlike or heroic woman”, literally “manlike”).
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virago (plural viragos or viragoes)
- A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation.
- Synonyms: shrew, termagant; see also Thesaurus:shrew
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:
- Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, chapter III, in Nothing Like the Sun:
- Joan was all Arden, grinning there, siding with her virago mother.
- A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated.
- Synonyms: shrew; see also Thesaurus:shrew
- A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive.
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rough woman
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French edit
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virago f (plural viragos)
Further reading edit
- “virago”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
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virago f (usually invariable, plural (literary) viragini)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯iˈraː.ɡoː/, [u̯ɪˈräːɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈra.ɡo/, [viˈräːɡo]
Noun edit
virāgō f (genitive virāginis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | virāgō | virāginēs |
Genitive | virāginis | virāginum |
Dative | virāginī | virāginibus |
Accusative | virāginem | virāginēs |
Ablative | virāgine | virāginibus |
Vocative | virāgō | virāginēs |
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References edit
- “virago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “virago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- virago 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)
- virago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese edit
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- Hyphenation: vi‧ra‧go
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virago f (plural viragos)
- (derogatory) a manly woman
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virago