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English

Noun

virge (plural virges)

1. (obsolete) A wand.

Anagrams

• Viger, giver

Old French

Adjective

virge m (oblique and nominative feminine singular virge)

1. Alternative form of verge (virgin)

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)

1. (music) A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
2. (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.
3. (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 [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

• gravi-

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?vi?.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bir.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vi?.?a/

Noun

virga f (plural virgues)

1. (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)

1. virgin, virginal

Derived terms

Estonian

Adjective

virga

1. genitive singular of virk

Interlingua

Etymology

Italian verga, French verge, Spanish verga, and Portuguese virga.

Noun

virga (plural virgas)

1. rod
2. (nautical) yard
3. (vulgar) dick

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin virga.

Noun

virga f

1. whip
2. 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

1. twig, young shoot
2. rod, switch for flogging.
3. staff, walking stick
4. wand (magical)
5. (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

1. feminine singular of virgo