vagina

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“a sheath, scabbard; a covering, sheath, holder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/
• Rhymes: -aɪnə
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or (obsolete) vaginæ)

2. (anatomy) A sex organ leading from the vulval vestibule/urogenital sinus to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and birth in female therian mammals.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

   1. (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates and non-mammalian amniotes.
3. (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

   Synonym: sheath

4. (colloquial) The vulva, or collectively, the vulva and the vaginal passage.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
5. (derogatory, colloquial) A coward; a weakling; a pussy.
   • 2002, "The New Terrance And Phillip Movie Trailer" (South Park TV episode)

     Don't you interrupt me, you vagina! I was givin' a heart-wrenchin' soliloquy about me feelin's for Tugger!

6. (transgender slang) The anus of a trans woman.

Usage notes

• In technical discussions of anatomy, the vagina is a wholly internal structure and the vulva is wholly external, but in common use (since at least the 1930s), vagina can refer to the vulva or function as a general term for the entire genitalia.

Hypernyms

• Müllerian ducts (upper vagina), urogenital sinus (lower vagina) - embryological precursors
• internal genitalia

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• Fielding, Lucie (2021) Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96
• Zimman, Lal (2014 August 1) “The Discursive Construction of Sex: Remaking and Reclaiming the Gendered Body in Talk About Genitals Among Trans Men”, in Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality‎^[1], Oxford UP, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 13–34

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “vagina”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Gavina

Afrikaans

Noun

vagina (plural [please provide])

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skede

Further reading

• "vagina" at majstro.com

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of beina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈʒi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈʒi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vaˈd͡ʒi.na]

Noun

vagina f (plural vagines)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

Danish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina c (singular definite vaginaen, plural indefinite vaginaer)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Declension

Synonyms

• (female genitalia): fisse, kusse, skede (clinical), tissekone (childish), fjams, fissehul (derogatory)

Derived terms

Further reading

• vagina on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na
• Rhymes: -aːɣinaː

Noun

vagina f (plural vagina's, diminutive vaginaatje n)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: schede; see also Thesaurus:vagina

Related terms

Esperanto

Etymology

From vagino +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vaˈɡina]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gin‧a

Adjective

vagina (accusative singular vaginan, plural vaginaj, accusative plural vaginajn)

1. vaginal

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑɡinɑ/, [ˈʋɑ̝ɡinɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡinɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: emätin

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“a sheath, scabbard; a covering, sheath, holder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈɡi.na/, [fäˈɡi.nä]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina

1. vagina
   1. (anatomy) A passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals.
   2. (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates and non-mammalian amniotes.
   3. (colloquial) The vulva, or collectively, the vulva and the vaginal passage.

Derived terms

References

• “vagina” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

Related terms

• vaginal

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of guaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gì‧na

Noun

vagina f (plural vagine)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

See also

• cervice
• vulva

Anagrams

• gavina, ignava, naviga, vangai

Latin

Alternative forms

• uāgīna

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”). Tentatively cognate with Lithuanian vóžti (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯aːˈɡiː.na/, [u̯äːˈɡiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/, [väˈd͡ʒiːnä]

Noun

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. (literal) a sheath, scabbard

   Mitte gladium in vaginam. ― Put the sword into its sheath.

   Gladium vaginā proripere. ― To draw a sword from the sheath hastily.

2. (transferred sense) the covering, sheath, holder of anything
   1. the hull, husk
   2. (anatomy) the vagina
   3. (zootomy, in cats) the sheath of a claw

Usage notes

The anatomical sense is a Medieval euphemism not attested in Classical literature.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ēvāgīnō (verb)
• neovāgīna (New Latin, surgery)
• vāgīnālis (adjective)
• vāgīnula (diminutive)

Related terms

• ēvaginātiō

Descendants

Borrowings (anatomical sense)

References

• "vagina", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "vagina", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vagina 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)
• vagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "vagina", in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vagina", in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “vagina”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vanilje.

Noun

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer, definite plural vaginaene)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

Derived terms

• vaginose

References

• “vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer or vaginaar, definite plural vaginaene or vaginaane)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

Derived terms

• vaginose

References

• “vagina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of bainha and vagem.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina/translations

Derived terms

• vaginal

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡǐːna/
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: rȍdnica

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡíːna/

Noun

vagȋna f

1. (anatomy) vagina

Inflection

Derived terms

• vaginálen

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vaina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈxina/ [baˈxi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Related terms

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

vagina c

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: slida, (vulgar) fitthål

Declension

Derived terms

• neovagina

Related terms

• vaginal (“vaginal”)

See also

• sköte
• underliv
• vulva
• fitta
• penis

References

• vagina in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vagina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vagina in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• Fula Ordboken