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) 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

   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

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vəˈʒi.nə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bəˈʒi.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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

   Synonym: schede

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).

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

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. (literally) 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.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ēvāgīnō (verb)
• 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.

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) a vagina

   Synonym: slida

Declension

Related terms

• vaginal (“vaginal”)

See also

• underliv
• vulva
• fitta
• penis

References

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