virga

Borrowed from Latin virga (“rod”). Doublet of verge.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vûrʹgə, IPA^(key): /ˈvɜːɡə/

virga (countable and uncountable, plural virgas or virgae)

1. (music) A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
2. (meteorology, countable) A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
3. (measurement, countable) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.

• (musical note): virgula

• virga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “virga” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

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virga f (plural virgues)

1. (meteorology) virga

Borrowed from Latin virgō +‎ -a.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvirɡa/
• Hyphenation: vir‧ga
• Rhymes: -irɡa

virga (accusative singular virgan, plural virgaj, accusative plural virgajn)

1. virgin, virginal

virga

1. genitive singular of virk

Italian verga, French verge, Spanish verga, and Portuguese virga.

virga (plural virgas)

1. rod
2. (nautical) yard
3. (vulgar) dick

From Latin virga.

virga f

1. whip
2. strap

From Proto-Italic *wizgā, probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh₂ (“flexible rod or stick”). Possibly cognate to Old Norse visk and Old High German wisc (“bundle, sheaf”).[1] Or, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to turn, rotate”) and cognate with viscum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwir.ɡa/, [ˈwɪr.ɡa]

virga f (genitive virgae); first declension

1. twig, switch
2. rod, switch for flogging.
3. staff, walking stick
4. wand (magical)
5. (figuratively, vulgar) penis

First declension.

• virga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• virga in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• virga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• virga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to beat with rods: virgis caedere
    
• virga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers