virgem
See also: Virgem
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese virgen, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin virginem (“virgin”).
Pronunciation
edit
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈviɦ.ʒẽj̃/
- Hyphenation: vir‧gem
- Homophone: Virgem
Noun
editvirgem m or f by sense (plural virgens)
- virgin (person who has never had sexual intercourse)
Noun
editvirgem f (plural virgens)
- (Roman Catholicism) an image, icon or statuette of Virgin Mary
Derived terms
edit- virgenzinho (diminutive)
- Virgem Maria
Adjective
editvirgem m or f (plural virgens)
- virgin (not having had sexual intercourse)
- untouched (remaining in its original, pristine state)
- (of quicklime) unslaked
- (of an optical disk) blank
- CD virgem ― blank CD
Related terms
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
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- Portuguese terms with homophones
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese nouns with multiple genders
- Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- pt:Roman Catholicism
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese terms with collocations
- pt:Sex