virgen
See also: Virgen
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin virginem[1] (the expected normal result in Spanish would be *vercen[2]). Also a doublet of the completely learned borrowing virgo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]virgen m or f (masculine and feminine plural vírgenes)
Noun
[edit]virgen m or f by sense (plural vírgenes)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “virgen”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2019 January 15 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 August 2018
Further reading
[edit]- “virgen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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