virino

English

Noun

virino (plural virinos)

1. (biology) A hypothetical infectious particle, consisting of nucleic acids in a protective coat of host cell proteins, once theorized to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.

Anagrams

• virion

Esperanto

virinoj

Etymology

From viro (“man”) +‎ -ino (“female”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈrino/

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: vi‧ri‧no
• Hyphenation: vir‧ino

Noun

virino (accusative singular virinon, plural virinoj, accusative plural virinojn)

2. woman

   Synonyms: ino, (rare) homino, (rare, literary) femino

   Antonym: viro

   Hypernyms: homo (“human being”), persono (“person”)

   La virino amas la viron.

   The woman loves the man.

   Tiu virino belegas, ĉu vi ne konsentas?

   That woman is gorgeous, don't you agree?

   • 2025 November 27, Renée Triolle, “La unua eŭropano, kiu vizitis Tibeton Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2025:

     Eblas diri, ke ŝi estas "feministo" en epoko, kiam virinoj ankoraŭ ne esperis havi la samajn rajtojn, kiujn havis viroj.

     It's possible to say she was a "feminist" in an epoch, when women didn't yet hope to have the same rights as men did.

Derived terms

• virina

Further reading

• “virino”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “virino”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Italian

Verb

virino

1. inflection of virare:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• rinvio, rinviò, rovini