[ˈwɪr.ɡoː], [ˈvir.ɡo]
OriginUncertain; one hypothesis is that it is related to virga (“young shoot”).
- declension-3a maiden, maid; an unmarried young woman or girl (typically nubile, i.e., of marriageable age and social status)
“Mater virginis in medio est.” — The maiden's mother is alive.
“Imitatus esses ipsum illum Q. Voconium, qui lege sua hereditatem ademit nulli neque virgini neque mulieri: sanxit in posterum, qui post eos censores census esset, ne quis heredem virginem neve muliere” — 1928 translation by L. H. G. Greenwood
You might well have followed the example of Quintus Voconius himself, then: for his law did not deprive any girl or woman of her position of heiress if she had i
- Christian, broadly, declension-3, rarean unmarried young man
- declension-3a virgin; someone female who has never experienced (penile–vaginal) sexual intercourse
“Peiore res loco non potis est esse quam in quo nunc sitast.
Primum indotatast. Tum praeterea, quae secunda ei dos erat,” — 2001 translation by John Barsby
Matters couldn’t be worse than they are now. First, she has no dowry. Then she’s lost the next best thing: she can’t be given in marriage as a virgin. There’s one thing
“Sunt autem qui putant nonnunquam posse complexione supersederi, cum id perspicuum sit quod conficiatur ex ratiocinatione; quod si fiat, bipertitam quoque fieri argumentationem, hoc modo: "Si peperit, ” — 1949 translation by H. M. Hubbell
There are, moreover, those who think that one may at times dispense with the conclusion when the result of the reasoning is perfectly clear; in this case the argument
“quid mīrum, virgō sī virgine laeta ministrā
admittit castās ad sua sacra manūs?
What wonder [is there] if a virgin, [who] delights in [having] a virgin attendant, admits [only] chaste hands to her sac”
- Ecclesiastical, Latin, broadly, declension-3a male virgin
- broadly, declension-3a young woman, girl
- usuallyvirgin, unwedded
“[…] 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
- untouched, unused, uncultivated, pure
“[…] terram virginem […]” — […] virgin soil […]
“Secreta quaere carmina et rudes curas,
quas novit unus scrinioque signatas
custodit ipse virginis pater chartae,” — (please add an English translation of this quotation)
“D. M. L. Pomponius Pantagathus comparavit monumentum virginem sibi et suis p.que” — (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- declension-3Virgo (constellation)
- declension-3a male given name, character in the play Persa by Plautus
Formsvirgō(canonical, feminine) · virginis(genitive) · virgō(nominative, singular) · virginēs(nominative, plural) · virginis(genitive, singular) · virginum(genitive, plural) · virginī(dative, singular) · virginibus(dative, plural) · virginem(accusative, singular) · virginēs(accusative, plural) · virgine(ablative, singular) · virginibus(ablative, plural) · virgō(singular, vocative) · virginēs(plural, vocative) · vircō(alternative, Old-Latin) · Virgō(canonical, feminine, singular) · Virginis(genitive) · Virgō(nominative, singular) · Virginis(genitive, singular) · Virginī(dative, singular)