muliebris

Latin

Etymology

For *muliesris, from mulier (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mʊˈli.ɛ.brɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [muˈliː.e.bris]

Adjective

muliebris (neuter muliebre, adverb muliebriter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. of a woman; womanly; feminine; female

   Synonym: fēminīnus

   Antonyms: masculus, masculīnus

2. (derogatory) effeminate; womanish; unmanly

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	muliebris	muliebre		muliebrēs	muliebria
genitive	muliebris			muliebrium
dative	muliebrī			muliebribus
accusative	muliebrem	muliebre		muliebrīs muliebrēs	muliebria
ablative	muliebrī			muliebribus
vocative	muliebris	muliebre		muliebrēs	muliebria

Derived terms

• muliebritās
• muliebriter
• vās muliebre

Related terms

• muliebrōsus
• mulier
• mulierārius
• muliercula
• mulierculārius
• mulieritās
• mulierō
• mulierōsitās
• mulierōsus

Descendants

• → English: muliebral
• → Italian: muliebre

References

• “muliebris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “muliebris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “muliebris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN