vagina

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

Noun

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

  1. (anatomy) A 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
    1. (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates.
  2. (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
    Synonym: sheath
  3. (colloquial) The vulva, or the vulva and the vaginal passage collectively.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
  4. (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!

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

Related terms

Translations

References

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): (Valencian) [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

Noun

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

  1. (anatomy) vagina
    Synonyms: schede; see also Thesaurus:vagina

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
  • Syllabification(key): va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina

  1. (anatomy) vagina
    Synonym: emätin

Declension

Further reading

  • vagina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

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) 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

Not used medically/anatomically during classical times.

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, portal Fran

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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)

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