English Online Dictionary. What means vagina? What does vagina mean?
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: vəjīʹnə, IPA(key): /vəˈdʒaɪnə/
- Rhymes: -aɪnə
- Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na
Noun
vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or vaginæ)
- (anatomy) The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
- 1991, Mark M. Jones, Human Reproductive Biology (page 61)
- The epithelial lining of the vagina consists of many layers of flattened cells. Changes in the condition of these cells during the menstrual cycle can be detected by swabbing the lining and looking at the cells under a microscope.
- (zoology) A similar part in some invertebrates.
- (botany) A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
- Synonym: sheath
- (colloquial) The vulva.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
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
- genitals
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Gavina
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet beina.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /vəˈʒi.nə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /bəˈʒi.nə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/
Noun
vagina f (plural vagines)
- (anatomy) vagina
Related terms
- vaginal
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.
Noun
vagina c (singular definite vaginaen, plural indefinite vaginaer)
- (anatomy) vagina
Synonyms
- (female genitalia): fisse, kusse, skede (clinical), tissekone (childish), fjams, fissehul (derogatory)
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/
- Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na
Noun
vagina f (plural vagina's, diminutive vaginaatje n)
- vagina
- Synonym: schede
Esperanto
Etymology
From vagino + -a.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vaˈɡina/
- Hyphenation: va‧gin‧a
- Rhymes: -ina
Adjective
vagina (accusative singular vaginan, plural vaginaj, accusative plural vaginajn)
- vaginal
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɑɡinɑ/, [ˈʋɑɡinɑ]
- Rhymes: -ɑɡinɑ
- Syllabification: va‧gi‧na
Noun
vagina
- (anatomy) vagina
- Synonym: emätin
Declension
Interlingua
Noun
vagina (plural vaginas)
- vagina
Related terms
- vaginal
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet guaina.
Noun
vagina f (plural vagine)
- (anatomy) vagina
Derived terms
See also
- cervice
- vulva
Anagrams
- ignava, naviga, vangai
Latin
Alternative forms
- uāgīna
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /waːˈɡiː.na/, [wäːˈɡiːnä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/, [vɑˈd͡ʒiːnɑ]
Noun
vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension
- sheath, scabbard
- covering, sheath, holder of any thing
- sheath of an ear of grain, etc., the hull, husk
- vagina
- sheath of a claw, in cats
Usage notes
Not used medically/anatomically during classical times.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- ēvaginō
- vaginula
Related terms
- ēvaginātiō
Descendants
- Italian: guaina
- Old French: guaïne
- French: gaine
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: vaina
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: beina
- Old Portuguese: baynna, vaynna
- Galician: vaíña; vaxa
- Portuguese: bainha; vagem
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: vaina
- Sicilian: guaina, vajina
Borrowings
References
- vagina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- vagina in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- vagina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- vagina in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
- vagina in Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898
- vagina in William Smith et al., editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin, 1890
- “vagina”, in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.
Noun
vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer, definite plural vaginaene)
- (anatomy) vagina
- Synonym: skjede
Derived terms
- vaginose
References
- “vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.
Noun
vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer or vaginaar, definite plural vaginaene or vaginaane)
- (anatomy) vagina
- Synonym: skjede
Derived terms
- vaginose
References
- “vagina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
Noun
vagina f (plural vaginas)
- (anatomy) vagina
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet bainha; compare also vagem.
Noun
vagina f (plural vaginas)
- (anatomy) vagina
Related terms
- vaginal
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʋaɡǐːna/
- Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na
Noun
vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)
- (anatomy) vagina
Declension
Synonyms
- rȍdnica
Slovene
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʋaɡíːna/
Noun
vagȋna f
- vagina
Inflection
Derived terms
- vaginálen
Further reading
- “vagina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU[3], portal Fran
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet vaina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈxina/, [baˈxi.na]
Noun
vagina f (plural vaginas)
- vagina
Related terms
- vaginal