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virgo

See also: Virgo

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Noun

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virgo (plural virgi)

  1. virgin

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Related to virga (“young shoot”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

Declension

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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

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Descendants

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References

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  • “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.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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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.

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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Noun

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virgo

  1. Virgin.
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