virgen

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See also: Virgen

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin virginem, singular accusative of virgō[1] (the expected normal result in Spanish would be *verzen[2]). Also a doublet of the completely learned borrowing virgo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbiɾxen/ [ˈbiɾ.xẽn]

Noun

virgen m or f (plural vírgenes)

  1. virgin

Derived terms

Further reading

References

  1. ^ https://www.scribd.com/document/220768067/Corominas-Diccionario-Etimologico
  2. ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2019 January 15 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 August 2018