vaginal

Borrowed from New Latin vāgīnālis, from vāgīna (“a covering, sheath; the vagina”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to vagina +‎ -al.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəˈd͡ʒʌɪ.nəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvæd͡ʒ.ən.əl/
• Rhymes: -aɪnəl, -ædʒɪnəl

vaginal (not comparable)

1. (relational) Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina.

   You may have a vaginal birth, C-section or surrogacy; it's up to you.

   • 2021 June 8, Jacqui Palumbo, “These innovative designs are tackling taboo health issues for women”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A non-hormonal birth control capsule that women can insert just before sex. A rape kit that gives victims more agency and streamlines the evidence collection process. An overhauled design for a 150-year-old tool used in postpartum vaginal tearing.

2. (anatomy, relational) Of or relating to a theca.

• yonic

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

• Galvani, avaling

From vagina +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bə.ʒiˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [və.ʒiˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [va.d͡ʒiˈnal]

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• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧nal

vaginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural vaginals)

1. vaginal

• cervicovaginal

• “vaginal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vaginal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vaginal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /va.ʒi.nal/

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vaginal (feminine vaginale, masculine plural vaginaux, feminine plural vaginales)

1. vaginal

   Les sécrétions vaginales, quand elles ont une consistance mucilagineuse adéquate, favorisent la pénétration et les mouvements du pénis ou de l'objet pénétrant dans le vagin et facilitent le plaisir sexuel.

   Vaginal secretions have a mucilaginous consistency that eases the penetration and movement of the penis or the penetrating object into and inside the vagina (thus) facilitating (female) sexual pleasure.

• → Dutch: vaginaal

• “vaginal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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• Rhymes: -aːl

vaginal (no predicative form, strong nominative masculine singular vaginaler, not comparable)

1. vaginal

• “vaginal” in Duden online
• “vaginal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from Dutch vaginaal (“vaginal”), from French vaginal, from New Latin vāgīnālis.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /vaˈɡinal/ [faˈɡi.nal]
• Rhymes: -inal
• Syllabification: va‧gi‧nal

vaginal (comparative lebih vaginal, superlative paling vaginal)

1. (anatomy) vaginal

• “vaginal” 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.

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: va‧gi‧nal

vaginal m or f (plural vaginais)

1. vaginal

• vaginalmente

Borrowed from French vaginal. By surface analysis, vagin +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /vad͡ʒiˈnal/

vaginal m or n (feminine singular vaginală, masculine plural vaginali, feminine and neuter plural vaginale)

1. vaginal

• vagin

From vagina +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /baxiˈnal/ [ba.xiˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: va‧gi‧nal

vaginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural vaginales)

1. vaginal

• “vaginal”, 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

vaginal (not comparable)

1. vaginal

• neovaginal (“neovaginal”)
• vaginalflatulens (“vaginal flatulence”)
• vaginalkula (“kegel ball”)
• vaginalsex (“vaginal sex”)

• vagina (“vagina”)

• vaginal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vaginal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)