virgo

virgo (plural virgi)

1. virgin

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

Related to virga (“young shoot”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwir.ɡoː/, [ˈwɪr.ɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvir.ɡo/

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

   • c. 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, 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 […]

Third declension.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• virgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin virgō.

virgo

1. Virgin.