different between groin vs inguen
groin
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
Noun
groin (plural groins)
- The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
- The area adjoining this fold or depression.
- He pulled a muscle in his groin.
- (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
- (euphemistic) The genitals.
- He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
- (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
Coordinate terms
- inguinal
Translations
Verb
groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)
- To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
- In the scrum he somehow got groined.
- She groined him and ran to the car.
- (architecture) To build with groins.
- (literary) To hollow out, to excavate.
- 'Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.' (From Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen).
Etymology 2
From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunni?) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunn?n?).
Verb
groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)
- To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
- Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
Etymology 3
Noun
groin (plural groins)
- Alternative spelling of groyne
Anagrams
- Gorin, O-ring, Ringo, giron
French
Etymology
From Old French groign, from Late Latin grunium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??w??/
Noun
groin m (plural groins)
- the snout of the pig
Further reading
- “groin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- giron
Middle English
Noun
groin
- Alternative form of groyn
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inguen
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inguen.
Noun
inguen (plural inguens)
- (anatomy) The groin.
- 1909, Transactions of the third International Sanitary Conference of the American Republics
- Ganglions of the right and of the left inguens […]
- 1909, Transactions of the third International Sanitary Conference of the American Republics
Anagrams
- gunnie, ingenu
Latin
Alternative forms
- (Late Latin) inguina
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h?n?g?-en-, related to Ancient Greek ???? (ad?n) and Old Norse ökkvinn.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?in.??en/, [??????n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?in.?wen/, [?i??w?n]
Noun
inguen n (genitive inguinis); third declension
- (anatomy) groin
- privates (sexual organs)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
- inguin?lis
Descendants
References
- inguen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- inguen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inguen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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