virga

See also: Virga

English

A virga denoting do.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virga (“rod”). Doublet of verge.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vûrʹgə, IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːɡə/

Noun

virga (countable and uncountable, plural virgas or virgae)

1. (music) A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
2. (meteorology, countable) A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
3. (measurement, countable) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.

Synonyms

• (musical note): virgula

Translations

streak of rain or snow

• German: Sturzsträhne f
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• Japanese: 尾流雲 (びりゅううん, biryūun)

See also

• virga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “virga” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

• gravi-

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbir.ɡə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvir.ɡə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈviɾ.ɣa]

Noun

virga f (plural virgues)

1. (meteorology) virga

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virgō +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvirɡa]
• Rhymes: -irɡa
• Hyphenation: vir‧ga

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Adjective

virga (accusative singular virgan, plural virgaj, accusative plural virgajn)

1. virgin, virginal

Derived terms

• malvirgigi (“to deflower, to violate”)
• virgulino (“female virgin”)
• virgulo (“virgin”)

 

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Estonian

Adjective

virga

1. genitive singular of virk

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Interlingua

Etymology

Italian verga, French verge, Spanish verga, and Portuguese virga.

Noun

virga (plural virgas)

1. rod
2. (nautical) yard
3. (vulgar) dick

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin virga.

Noun

virga f

1. whip
2. strap

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wizgā, probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh₂ (“flexible rod or stick”). Possibly cognate to Old Norse visk and Old High German wisc (“bundle, sheaf”). From Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to produce, procreate”), or alternatively from a stem *weyḱs- (see *weyḱ-). Regardless, it is probably a doublet of viscum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ir.ɡa/, [ˈu̯ɪrɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvir.ɡa/, [ˈvirɡä]

Noun

virga f (genitive virgae); first declension

1. twig, young shoot
2. rod, switch for flogging.
3. staff, walking stick
4. wand (magical)
5. (figuratively) penis, cervix

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	virga	virgae
Genitive	virgae	virgārum
Dative	virgae	virgīs
Accusative	virgam	virgās
Ablative	virgā	virgīs
Vocative	virga	virgae

Derived terms

Derived terms

• virgāta
• virgātor
• virgātus

• virgeus
• virgōsus
• virgula

Descendants

• Aromanian: veargã
• Asturian: verga
• Catalan: verga
• English: virga
• French: verge, vergue
• Galician: verga
• Greek: βέργα (vérga)
• Hungarian: virgács

• Istriot: virga
• Italian: verga
• Occitan: vèrga
• Old French: verge
  • English: verge
• Piedmontese: verga, vërga
• Portuguese: verga, virga
• Romanian: vargă
• Sicilian: virga
• Spanish: verga

References

• “virga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “virga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• virga 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)
• virga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to beat with rods: virgis caedere
    
• “virga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers