virginal

From Middle English virginal, from Middle French virginal, from Latin virginālis. The musical instrument is probably so called from being played by young girls.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪnəl/

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virginal (comparative more virginal, superlative most virginal)

1. Being or resembling a virgin.
2. Uncontaminated or pure.
3. (zoology) Parthenogenic.

virginal (plural virginal or virginals)

1. (music) A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.
   • 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 16, in Friday's Business‎^[1]:

     His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart, and to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.

• pair of virginals

• rivaling

• IPA^(key): /viʁ.ʒi.nal/

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virginal (feminine virginale, masculine plural virginaux, feminine plural virginales)

1. virginal

virginal m (plural virginaux)

1. virginal

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

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

virginal m or f (plural virginais)

1. virginal (relating to virgins)
2. virgin: immaculate; chaste; untouched

   Synonyms: virgem, casto, imaculado

For quotations using this term, see Citations:virginal.

• virgem
• virgindade

virginal m (plural virginais)

1. virginal (instrument)

Borrowed from French virginal, from Latin virginalus. By surface analysis, virgină +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /vir.d͡ʒiˈnal/

virginal m or n (feminine singular virginală, masculine plural virginali, feminine and neuter plural virginale)

1. virginal

• “virginal”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• IPA^(key): /biɾxiˈnal/ [biɾ.xiˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: vir‧gi‧nal

virginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural virginales)

1. virginal

• “virginal”, 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