different between pristine vs virginal

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French pristin, borrowed from Latin pristinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??sti?n/, /p??s?ti?n/, /p??s?ta?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n, -a?n

Adjective

pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine)

1. Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.

2. Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something.

   • Thus fable reports that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fine woman, no sooner perceived a mouse than, mindful of her former sport, and still retaining her pristine nature, she leaped from the bed of her husband to pursue the little animal.

3. Perfect.

Derived terms

• pristinely

Translations

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ??????? (príst?s, “a saw, one that saws”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?n

Adjective

pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine)

1. Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
   • 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [1]

     This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).

Anagrams

• Petrinis, spiriten

Italian

Adjective

pristine

1. feminine plural of pristino

Latin

Adjective

pr?stine

1. vocative masculine singular of pr?stinus

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

virginal (comparative more virginal, superlative most virginal)

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

Translations

Noun

virginal (plural virginal or virginals)

1. (music) A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.

Translations

Anagrams

• rivaling

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi?.?i.nal/

Adjective

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

1. virginal

Noun

virginal m (plural virginaux)

1. virginal

Further reading

• “virginal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Adjective

virginal m or f (plural virginais, comparable)

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

   Synonyms: virgem, casto, imaculado

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:virginal.

Related terms

• virgem
• virgindade

Noun

virginal m (plural virginais)

1. virginal (instrument)

Romanian

Etymology

From French virginal, from Latin virginalus.

Adjective

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

1. virginal

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

virginal (plural virginales)

1. virginal