English Online Dictionary. What means vagina? What does vagina mean?
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)
- (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
- (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates.
- (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
- Synonym: sheath
- (colloquial) The vulva, or the vulva and the vaginal passage collectively.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A coward; a weakling; a pussy.
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])
- (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)
- (anatomy) vagina
Related terms
- vaginal
Danish
Etymology
Learned borrowing 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
Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/
- Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na
Noun
vagina f (plural vagina's, diminutive vaginaatje n)
- (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)
- vaginal
Finnish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɑɡinɑ/, [ˈʋɑ̝ɡinɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑɡinɑ
- Syllabification(key): va‧gi‧na
Noun
vagina
- (anatomy) vagina
- Synonym: emätin
Declension
Interlingua
Noun
vagina (plural vaginas)
- 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)
- (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]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/, [väˈd͡ʒiːnä]
Noun
vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension
- (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.
- (transferred sense) the covering, sheath, holder of anything
- the hull, husk
- (anatomy) the vagina
- (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
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)
- (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)
- (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)
- (anatomy) vagina
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of bainha and vagem.
Noun
vagina f (plural vaginas)
- (anatomy) vagina
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina/translations
Related terms
- vaginal
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʋaɡǐːna/
- Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na
Noun
vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)
- (anatomy) vagina
- Synonym: rȍdnica
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʋaɡíːna/
Noun
vagȋna f
- (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)
- 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
- (anatomy) a vagina
- Synonym: slida
Declension
Related terms
- vaginal (“vaginal”)
See also
- vulva
- fitta
References
- vagina in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- vagina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- vagina in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)