virgo

See also: Virgo

Ido

Noun

virgo (plural virgi)

1. virgin

Hyponyms

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

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Latin

Etymology

Related to virga (“young shoot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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, sexually intact woman (compare puella)
   • 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

   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe :

     Mater virginis in medio est.

     The maiden's mother is alive.

2. (by extension) a young woman, girl
3. (by extension, Ecclesiastical Latin, 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

• virginālis
• virginārius
• virgineus
• virginitās
• virginor

 

Descendants

• Albanian: virgjër
• Aromanian: virghirã
• Asturian: virxe
• Catalan: verge
• English: virgin
• 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

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.

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virgō.

Noun

virgo

1. Virgin.