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virga
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin virga (“rod”). Doublet of verge.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vûr?g?, IPA(key): /?v????/
Noun
virga (countable and uncountable, plural virgas or virgae)
- (music) A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
- (meteorology, countable) A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
- (measurement, countable) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.
Synonyms
- (musical note): virgula
Translations
See also
- virga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “virga” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Anagrams
- gravi-
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?vi?.??/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?bir.??/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?vi?.?a/
Noun
virga f (plural virgues)
- (meteorology) virga
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin virg? +? -a.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vir?a/
- Hyphenation: vir?ga
- Rhymes: -ir?a
Adjective
virga (accusative singular virgan, plural virgaj, accusative plural virgajn)
- virgin, virginal
Derived terms
Estonian
Adjective
virga
- genitive singular of virk
Interlingua
Etymology
Italian verga, French verge, Spanish verga, and Portuguese virga.
Noun
virga (plural virgas)
- rod
- (nautical) yard
- (vulgar) dick
Istriot
Etymology
From Latin virga.
Noun
virga f
- whip
- strap
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wizg?, probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh? (“flexible rod or stick”). Possibly cognate with Proto-Germanic *wiskaz (“bundle of hay or straw, wisp”). From Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to produce, procreate”), or alternatively from a stem *wey?s- (see *wey?-). Regardless, it is probably a doublet of viscum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?ir.?a/, [?u??r?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?vir.?a/, [?vir??]
Noun
virga f (genitive virgae); first declension
- twig, young shoot
- rod, switch for flogging.
- staff, walking stick
- wand (magical)
- (figuratively) penis, cervix
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- virga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- virga in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- virga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- virga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- virga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bi??a/, [?bi?.??a]
Adjective
virga f sg
- feminine singular of virgo
virga From the web:
precipitation
English
Etymology
From Middle French précipitation, from Latin praecipit?ti?, praecipit?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /p???s?p??te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
precipitation (countable and uncountable, plural precipitations)
- (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- South Korea’s Ministry of Environment said in a news release that no major precipitation was observed after the cloud seeding operation.
- South Korea’s Ministry of Environment said in a news release that no major precipitation was observed after the cloud seeding operation.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- A hurried headlong fall.
- (countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
- (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
- 1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
- […] had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase.
- 1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hydrometeor
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- precipitation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- haste
- rashness
Anagrams
- intraepitopic
precipitation From the web:
- what precipitation means
- what precipitation means in weather
- what precipitation means rain
- what precipitation comes from cirrus clouds
- what precipitation is extreme
- what precipitation percent means
- what precipitation do
- what are the 4 types of precipitation
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