English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

Pronunciation

enPR: vəjī ʹ nə , IPA (key) : /vəˈdʒaɪnə/

, IPA : Audio (US)

Rhymes: -aɪnə

Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or vaginæ)

( anatomy ) The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals. 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. ( zoology ) A similar part in some invertebrates. ( botany ) A sheath-like structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem. sheath ( colloquial ) The vulva. see Thesaurus: vulva For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina

Usage notes

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.

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Translations

zoological sense Catalan: vagina (ca) f Czech: vagina (cs) f

— see vulva vulva

References

^ Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space (2012), notes explicitly that a psychiatrist character played by a real psychiatrist uses it this way in the 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and also cites another use from 1970. Besides these examples from the 1930s onward , Martha Kirkpatrick, in(2012), notes explicitly that a psychiatrist character played by a real psychiatrist uses it this way in the 1969 film, and also cites another use from 1970.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet beina.

Pronunciation

Noun

vagina f (plural vagines)

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

vagina c (singular definite vaginaen, plural indefinite vaginaer)

Synonyms

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

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

IPA (key) : /ˈvaːɣinaː/

: Audio

Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

Noun

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

Esperanto

Etymology

From vagino +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

Audio

Adjective

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

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

Noun

vagina

Declension

Inflection of vagina (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) nominative vagina vaginat genitive vaginan vaginoiden

vaginoitten

vaginojen partitive vaginaa vaginoita

vaginoja illative vaginaan vaginoihin singular plural nominative vagina vaginat accusative nom. vagina vaginat gen. vaginan genitive vaginan vaginoiden

vaginoitten

vaginojen

vaginain rare partitive vaginaa vaginoita

vaginoja inessive vaginassa vaginoissa elative vaginasta vaginoista illative vaginaan vaginoihin adessive vaginalla vaginoilla ablative vaginalta vaginoilta allative vaginalle vaginoille essive vaginana vaginoina translative vaginaksi vaginoiksi instructive — vaginoin abessive vaginatta vaginoitta comitative — vaginoineen

Possessive forms of vagina (type katiska) possessor singular plural 1st person vaginani vaginamme 2nd person vaginasi vaginanne 3rd person vaginansa

Interlingua

Noun

vagina (plural vaginas)

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet guaina.

Noun

vagina f (plural vagine)

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

Usage notes

Not used medically/anatomically during classical times.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural Nominative vāgīna vāgīnae Genitive vāgīnae vāgīnārum Dative vāgīnae vāgīnīs Accusative vāgīnam vāgīnās Ablative vāgīnā vāgīnīs Vocative vāgīna vāgīnae

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Italian: guaina

Old French: guaïne French: gaine

Old Leonese: Asturian: vaina

Old Occitan: Catalan: beina

Old Portuguese: baynna , vaynna Galician: vaíña ; vaxa Portuguese: bainha ; vagem

, Old Spanish: Spanish: vaina

Sicilian: guaina , vajina

Borrowings

→ Albanian: vaginë vagjinë

Albanian: → Aragonese: vachina

Aragonese: → Asturian: vaxina

Asturian: → Azerbaijani: vagina

Azerbaijani: → Belarusian: вагіна ( vahina )

Belarusian: → Brythonic: *gwėɣin Breton: gouin → French: gouine Cornish: goen Welsh: gwain

Brythonic: → Bulgarian: вагина ( vagina )

Bulgarian: → Catalan: vagina

Catalan: → Czech: vagína

Czech: → Danish: vagina

Danish: → Dutch: vagina

Dutch: → English: vagina

English: → Finnish: vagina

Finnish: → French: vagin → Persian: واژن ( vâžan ) → Romanian: vagin

French: → Friulian: vagine , vazine

Friulian: , → Galician: vaxina

Galician: → Georgian: ვაგინა ( vagina )

Georgian: → German: Vagina

German: → Italian: vagina

Italian: → Japanese: ワギナ ( wagina )

Japanese: → Korean: 바기나 ( bagina )

Korean: → Northern Kurdish: vajîna

Northern Kurdish: → Latvian: vagīna

Latvian: → Macedonian: вагина ( vagina )

Macedonian: → Maltese: vaġina

Maltese: → Norwegian: vagina

Norwegian: → Occitan: vagina

Occitan: → Old Irish: faigen Irish: faighin Manx: fine Scottish Gaelic: faighean

Old Irish: → Portuguese: vagina

Portuguese: → Russian: ваги́на ( vagína )

Russian: → Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: вагина Latin: vagina

Serbo-Croatian: → Sicilian: vagina

Sicilian: → Slovak: vagína

Slovak: → Slovene: vagina

Slovene: → Spanish: vagina

Spanish: → Swedish: vagina

Swedish: → Turkish: vajina

Turkish: → Ukrainian: вагіна ( vahina )

Ukrainian: → Uzbek: vagina

Uzbek: → Venetian: vaxina , vazina

Venetian: , → West Frisian: fagina

West Frisian: → Yiddish: וואַגינע ( vagine )

References

^ Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 650 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “vāgīna”, in(Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 650 ^ A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots , Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN Roberts, Edward A. (2014), Xlibris Corporation,

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

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

Derived terms

References

“vagina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

vagina Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on: Wikipedia nn

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Noun

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

Derived terms

References

“vagina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

Audio (Béarn)

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

Noun

vagína f (Cyrillic spelling ваги́на)

Declension

Declension of vagina singular plural nominative vagína vagine genitive vagine vagina dative vagini vaginama accusative vaginu vagine vocative vagino vagine locative vagini vaginama instrumental vaginom vaginama

Synonyms

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna.

Pronunciation

Noun

vagȋna f

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem nom. sing. vagína gen. sing. vagíne singular dual plural nominative vagína vagíni vagíne accusative vagíno vagíni vagíne genitive vagíne vagín vagín dative vagíni vagínama vagínam locative vagíni vagínah vagínah instrumental vagíno vagínama vagínami

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vāgīna. Compare the inherited doublet vaina.

Pronunciation

Noun

vagina f (plural vaginas)