virgo

See also: Virgo

Ido

Noun

virgo (plural virgi)

1. virgin

Hyponyms

• virgino (“female virgin”)
• virgulo (“male virgin”)

Latin

Alternative forms

• vircō (Early Latin)

Etymology

Related to virga (“young shoot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ir.ɡoː/, [ˈu̯ɪrɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvir.ɡo/, [ˈvirɡo]

Noun

virgō f (genitive virginis); third declension

1. a maid, maiden, virgin (compare puella)

   Synonym: intāctus

   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe :

     Mater virginis in medio est.

     The maiden's mother is alive.

   • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.37.63:

     […] cum Decimus quidam Verginius virginem filiam propter unius ex illis X viris intemperiem in foro sua manu interemisset

     […] that a certain Decimus Virginius was obliged, on account of the libidinous violence of one of these decemvirs, to stab his virgin daughter in the midst of the forum

   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.289-290:

     quid mīrum, virgō sī virgine laeta ministrā
     admittit castās ad sua sacra manūs?

     What wonder [is there] if a virgin, [who] delights in [having] a virgin attendant, admits [only] chaste hands to her sacred rites?
     (See Vesta (mythology); Vestalia.)

2. (by extension) a young woman, girl
3. (by extension, Ecclesiastical, of the Church Fathers) a male virgin
4. (by extension, of things) an adjectival appellative for unwedded, pure, unused
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.15:

     […] terram virginem […]

     […] virgin soil […]

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	virgō	virginēs
Genitive	virginis	virginum
Dative	virginī	virginibus
Accusative	virginem	virginēs
Ablative	virgine	virginibus
Vocative	virgō	virginēs

Derived terms

• virgineus
• virginitās
• virginor
• virginālis
• virginārius

 

Descendants

• Albanian: virgjër
• Aromanian: virghirã
• Asturian: virxe
• Catalan: verge
• English: virgin
• Piedmontese: verzo, vergio
• Ligurian: verzo
• French: vierge
• Friulian: virgin
• Galician: virxe
• Italian: vergine
• Lithuanian: mergelė (calque)
• Occitan: verge
• Papiamentu: vírgen
• Portuguese: virgem
• Romanian: virgin, vergură
• Sicilian: vìrgini
• Spanish: virgen, virgo
• Walloon: viêdge

References

• “virgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “virgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• virgo 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)
• virgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾɡo/ [ˈbiɾ.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -iɾɡo
• Syllabification: vir‧go

Noun

virgo m (plural virgos)

1. (singular only) Virgo, a constellation and sign in astrology

   Ella es virgo y nosotras sagitario.

   She is a Virgo but we're Sagitarius.

2. hymen

Adjective

virgo (feminine virga, masculine plural virgos, feminine plural virgas)

1. virgin

   No sabía que érais virgos.

   I didn't know you guys were virgins.

2. (colloquial, El Salvador) funny, typically in a stupid way (said of a thing or a person)

   Ese siempre es virgo con sus chistes.

   That guy is always funny in a stupid way with his jokes.

Further reading

• “virgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Noun

virgo

1. Virgin.