vagina

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

• IPA^(key): /vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/

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

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

2. (anatomy) A sex organ leading from the vulval vestibule/urogenital sinus to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and birth in female therian mammals.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

   Hypernyms: internal genitalia; Müllerian duct, paramesonephric duct, urogenital sinus

   • 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 and non-mammalian amniotes.
3. (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

   Synonym: sheath

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
5. (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!

6. (transgender slang) The anus of a trans woman.

• 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.

• Fielding, Lucie (2021) Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96
• Zimman, Lal (1 August 2014) “The Discursive Construction of Sex: Remaking and Reclaiming the Gendered Body in Talk About Genitals Among Trans Men”, in Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality‎^[1], Oxford UP, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 13–34

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

• Gavina

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

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): (Valencia) [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)

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːɣinaː/

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

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

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: schede; see also Thesaurus:vagina

From vagino +‎ -a.

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

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

1. vaginal

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

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

vagina

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonym: emätin

• “vagina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): /vaˈɡi.na/, [fäˈɡi.nä]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

vagina

1. vagina

• “vagina” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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 Latin) IPA^(key): [waːˈɡiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vaˈd͡ʒiː.na]

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

The anatomical sense is a Medieval euphemism not attested in Classical literature. The Classical term would be cunnus, sometimes considered vulgar.

First-declension noun.

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

• ēvaginātiō

• "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, baunilha, and vagem.

• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧na

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

• 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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	vagína
gen. sing.	vagíne
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	vagína	vagíni	vagíne
genitive (rodȋlnik)	vagíne	vagín	vagín
dative (dajȃlnik)	vagíni	vagínama	vagínam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	vagíno	vagíni	vagíne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	vagíni	vagínah	vagínah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	vagíno	vagínama	vagínami

• vaginálen

• “vagina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna. Doublet of vaina.

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

vagina f (plural vaginas)

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

• “vagina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

vagina c

1. (anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: slida, (vulgar) fitthål

• neovagina

• vaginal

• sköte
• underliv
• vulva
• fitta
• penis

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