virgin
English
/ˈvɝdʒɪn/, /ˈvɜːdʒɪn/
noun
Definitions
- A person who has never had sexual intercourse, or sometimes, one who has never engaged in any sexual activity at all.
- (early Christian Church) a woman noted for religious piety who has never been married.
- (informal) One who has never used or experienced a specified thing.
- Any of several species of gossamer-winged gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
- A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French virgine derived from Latin virginem.
Origin
Latin
virginem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Mary English
- Virgin Mary English
- birth English
- devirginisation English
- devirginise English
- devirginization English
- devirginize English
- devirginizer English
- disvirgin English
- nonvirgin English
- nonvirginity English
- permavirgin English
- pseudovirgin English
- semivirgin English
- spoiler English
- spoilervirgin English
- virgin birth English
- virginhood English
- virginial English
- virginity English
- virginly English
- virginem Latin
- vergine Italian
- virgen Spanish, Castilian
- アメリカ領ヴァージン諸島 Japanese
- イギリス領ヴァージン諸島 Japanese
- ヴァージン諸島 Japanese
- verge Old French
- virgene Old French
- virgine Old French
- virginite Old French
- virgen Old Portuguese
- bōjin Marshallese