vagina

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

• enPR: vəjīʹnə, IPA^(key): /vəˈdʒaɪnə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or vaginæ)

1. (anatomy) The 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, Mark M. Jones, Human Reproductive Biology (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.

2. (zoology) A similar part in some invertebrates.
3. (botany) A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

   Synonym: sheath

4. (colloquial) The vulva.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva

Vagina in colloquial use refers to the vulva, or as a general term for all female genitalia, but in anatomy the vagina is a wholly internal structure and calling the vulva the vagina is analogous to calling the lips the throat.

• genitals

• Gavina

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet beina.

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

vagina f (plural vagines)

1. (anatomy) vagina

• vaginal

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/

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• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

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

1. vagina

   Synonym: schede

From vagino +‎ -a.

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

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

1. vaginal

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

vagina (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

• vaginal

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet guaina.

vagina f (plural vagine)

1. (anatomy) vagina

• cervice
• vulva

• ignava, naviga, vangai

• uāgīna

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /waːˈɡiː.na/

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. sheath, scabbard
   • 100 BCE – 44 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.

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

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

2. covering, sheath, holder of any thing

   Omnia principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit natura.

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

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3. sheath of an ear of grain, etc., the hull, husk
4. vagina
5. sheath of a claw, in cats

Not used medically/anatomically during classical times.

First declension.

• ēvaginō
• vaginula

• ēvaginātiō

• Italian: guaina
• Old French: guaïne
  • French: gaine
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: vaina
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: beina
• Old Portuguese: baynna, vaynna
  • Galician: vaíña
  • Portuguese: bainha
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: vaina
• Sicilian: guaina

Borrowings

• 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, 1883–1887)
• vagina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sheath one's sword: gladium in vaginam recondere
    
• 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
• “vagina” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

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

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: skjede

• vaginose

• “vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed 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.

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

vagina f

1. (anatomy) vagina

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet bainha; compare also vagem.

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

• vaginal

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

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

vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

1. (anatomy) vagina

• rȍdnica

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): /ʋaˈɡíːna/
• Tonal orthography: vagı̑na

vagína f (genitive vagíne, nominative plural vagíne)

1. (anatomy) vagina

• vaginálen

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet vaina.

• IPA^(key): /baˈxina/

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. vagina

• vaginal