Vagina

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vagina"

Translingual

Vagina recta, now Solen marginatus

Proper noun

Vagina f

1. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Solenidae – a species of clams, now Solen marginatus, formerly Solen vagina. [from 1811]

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Bivalvia – class; Autobranchia – subclass; Heteroconchia – superorder; Venerida – order; Solenoidea - superfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Vagina recta - sole species

References

• Vagina at Index to Organism Names
• Solen marginatus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Solen marginatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Solen marginatus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Solen vagina at World Register of Marine Species

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɡina/, (etymological, but rare in practice) /vaˈɡiːna/

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Noun

Vagina f (genitive Vagina, plural Vaginen or Vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina
2. (by extension) the female sexual organs including the vulva

Usage notes

• The plural Vaginen is prescribed by most dictionaries, but Vaginas is predominant in general usage.
• The stylistic level of Vagina is similar to that of English vagina, though the German word is somewhat less frequent in the vernacular. Both Vagina and the loan translation Scheide may loosely include the vulva (as in English). In formal style, the euphemisms Schambereich or (dated) Scham are widely used as well. There is considerable variation in the vernacular with Muschi being possibly the most common.

Declension

Declension of Vagina [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Vagina	die	Vaginen, Vaginas
genitive	einer	der	Vagina	der	Vaginen, Vaginas
dative	einer	der	Vagina	den	Vaginen, Vaginas
accusative	eine	die	Vagina	die	Vaginen, Vaginas

Synonyms

• Scheide
• Muschi (colloquial, mildly vulgar)
• Möse (colloquial, vulgar)
• Fotze (very vulgar, often pejorative)

Derived terms

• Neovagina f
• vaginal

See also

• Scham, Schambereich

Further reading

• “Vagina” in Duden online
• “Vagina” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache