vagina

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“a sheath, scabbard; a covering, sheath, holder”).

• IPA^(key): /vəˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or (obsolete) vaginæ)

1. (anatomy) A passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

   • 1991, Richard Evan Jones, Human Reproductive Biology, →ISBN, page 61:

     The epithelial lining of the vagina consists of many layers of flattened cells. Changes in the condition of these cells during the menstrual cycle can be detected by swabbing the lining and looking at the cells under a microscope.

   1. (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates.
2. (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

   Synonym: sheath

3. (colloquial) The vulva, or the vulva and the vaginal passage collectively.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
4. (derogatory, colloquial) A coward; a weakling; a pussy.
   • 2002, "The New Terrance And Phillip Movie Trailer" (South Park TV episode)

     Don't you interrupt me, you vagina! I was givin' a heart-wrenchin' soliloquy about me feelin's for Tugger!

• In technical discussions of anatomy, the vagina is a wholly internal structure and the vulva is wholly external, but in common use (since at least the 1930s),[1] vagina can refer to the vulva or function as a general term for the entire genitalia.

• genitals

• “vagina”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “vagina”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Gavina

vagina (plural [please provide])

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skede

• "vagina" at majstro.com

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of beina.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈʒi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈʒi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [vaˈd͡ʒi.na]

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vagina f (plural vagines)

1. (anatomy) vagina

• vaginal

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

vagina c (singular definite vaginaen, plural indefinite vaginaer)

1. (anatomy) vagina

• (female genitalia): fisse, kusse, skede (clinical), tissekone (childish), fjams, fissehul (derogatory)

• vagina on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːɣinaː/

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• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

vagina f (plural vagina's, diminutive vaginaatje n)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: schede; see also Thesaurus:vagina

From vagino +‎ -a.

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• IPA^(key): [vaˈɡina]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gin‧a

vagina (accusative singular vaginan, plural vaginaj, accusative plural vaginajn)

1. vaginal

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑɡinɑ/, [ˈʋɑ̝ɡinɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡinɑ
• Syllabification^(key): va‧gi‧na

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: emätin

• “vagina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

vagina (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

• vaginal

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of guaina.

• IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gì‧na

vagina f (plural vagine)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

• cervice
• vulva

• gavina, ignava, naviga, vangai

• uāgīna

From Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”),[1] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”).[2] Tentatively cognate with Lithuanian vóžti (“to cover”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aːˈɡiː.na/, [u̯äːˈɡiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/, [väˈd͡ʒiːnä]

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. (literal) a sheath, scabbard
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.44:

     Avertit hic casus vaginam et gladium educere conanti dextram moratur manum, impeditumque hostes circumsistunt.

     This circumstance turns aside his scabbard and obstructs his right hand when attempting to draw his sword: the enemy crowd around him when [thus] embarrassed.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.579:

     Dixit, vaginaque eripit ensem fulmineum, strictoque ferit retinacula ferro.

     He said, and from its scabbard forth he flashed the lightning of his sword, with his sword he struck the hawsers.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.928–930:

     ‘inquinet arma situs, cōnātusque aliquis vāgīnā dūcere ferrum adstrictum longā sentiat esse morā.’

     Literally:
     ‘‘May [rust] stain weapons having been set down, and anyone having tried to draw from the scabbard to be feeling the iron having been tightened by a prolonged delay.’’
     Or in more natural English:
     ‘‘May rust stain disused weapons, and let anyone who tries to pull his sword from the scabbard feel it stuck by long neglect.’’

   Mitte gladium in vaginam. ― Put the sword into its sheath.

   Gladium vaginā proripere. ― To draw a sword from the sheath hastily.

2. (transferred sense) the covering, sheath, holder of anything
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XI.198:

     Omnia quidem principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit providens natura.

     Indeed provident Nature has enclosed all the principal internal organs with special membranes serving as sheaths.

   Cremato eo (corpore), inimici ... remeanti animae veluti vaginam ademerint.

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   1. the hull, husk
   2. (anatomy) the vagina
   3. (zootomy, in cats) the sheath of a claw

Not used medically/anatomically during classical times.

First-declension noun.

• ēvāgīnō (verb)
• neovāgīna (New Latin, surgery)
• vāgīnālis (adjective)
• vāgīnula (diminutive)

• ēvaginātiō

Borrowings (anatomical sense)

• "vagina", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "vagina", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vagina 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)
• vagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "vagina", in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vagina", in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “vagina”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vanilje.

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer, definite plural vaginaene)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

• vaginose

• “vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

vagina m (definite singular vaginaen, indefinite plural vaginaer or vaginaar, definite plural vaginaene or vaginaane)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

• vaginose

• “vagina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

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vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of bainha and vagem.

• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina/translations

• vaginal

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡǐːna/
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: rȍdnica

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): /ʋaɡíːna/

vagȋna f

1. (anatomy) vagina

• vaginálen

• “vagina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vaina.

• IPA^(key): /baˈxina/ [baˈxi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: va‧gi‧na

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

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

vagina c

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: slida, (vulgar) fitthål

• neovagina

• vaginal (“vaginal”)

• sköte
• underliv
• vulva
• fitta
• penis

• vagina in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vagina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vagina in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)