femina

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See also: fémina

Esperanto

Etymology

From femino (“woman”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [feˈmina]
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: fe‧min‧a

Adjective

femina (accusative singular feminan, plural feminaj, accusative plural feminajn)

  1. feminine (of women), women's
    Synonym: virina

Usage notes

Relatively uncommon; the synonym virina is generally used instead.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English feminine, French féminin, Italian femminile, Spanish femenino, from Latin fēminīnus from fēmina (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“who sucks”).

Adjective

femina

  1. female, feminine

Antonyms

Derived terms

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Noun

femina (plural feminas)

  1. woman

Latin

Etymology 1

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(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), the feminine mediopassive participle of *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).[1] Related to fīlius, fellō, fētus.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

fēmina f (genitive fēminae); first declension

  1. woman
    • 19 BCE, Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid, I, 361-364.
      conveniunt, quibus aut odium crudele tyranni
      aut metus acer erat; navis, quae forte paratae,
      corripiunt, onerantque auro: portantur avari
      Pygmalionis opes pelago; dux femina facti.
      Those came together that either felt ruthless hate or bitter fear for their tyrant. They seized ships that had incidentally already been arranged and loaded them with gold. The treasures of avaricious Pygmalion were carried to the sea; the leader of the action was a woman.
  2. wife
  3. (of animals) female
    • 45 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, De natura deorum, II, 128.
      nam primum aliae mares aliae feminae sunt, quod perpetuitatis causa machinata natura est, deinde partes corporis et ad procreandum et ad concipiendum aptissimae, et in mari et in femina commiscendorum corporum mirae libidines, cum autem in locis semen insedit rapit omnem fere cibum ad sese eoque saeptum fingit animal;
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  4. (grammar) the feminine gender
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fēmina fēminae
Genitive fēminae fēminārum
Dative fēminae fēminīs
Accusative fēminam fēminās
Ablative fēminā fēminīs
Vocative fēmina fēminae
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See femur.

Pronunciation

Noun

(deprecated template usage) femina

  1. nominative plural of femur
  2. accusative plural of femur
  3. vocative plural of femur

Etymology 3

Inflected form of feminō.

Verb

(deprecated template usage) feminā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of feminō

References

  • “fēmĭna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “femina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • femina 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)
  • fēmĭna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fēmina”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 210
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