vaginaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“a sheath, scabbard; a covering, sheath, holder”).

発音

• IPA: /vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/
• 韻: -aɪnə
• ハイフネーション: va‧gi‧na

名詞

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or (archaic) vaginæ)

1. (anatomy) A sex organ leading from the vulval vestibule/urogenital sinus to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and birth in female therian mammals.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

   Hypernyms: internal genitalia; Müllerian duct, paramesonephric duct, urogenital sinus

   • 1991, Richard Evan Jones, Human Reproductive Biology, →ISBN, page 61:

     The epithelial lining of the vagina consists of many layers of flattened cells. Changes in the condition of these cells during the menstrual cycle can be detected by swabbing the lining and looking at the cells under a microscope.

   1. (zootomy) A similar part in some invertebrates and non-mammalian amniotes.
2. (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

   Synonym: sheath

3. (colloquial) The vulva, or collectively, the vulva and the vaginal passage.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
4. (derogatory, colloquial) A coward; a weakling; a pussy.
   • 2002, "The New Terrance And Phillip Movie Trailer" (South Park TV episode)

     Don't you interrupt me, you vagina! I was givin' a heart-wrenchin' soliloquy about me feelin's for Tugger!

5. (transgender slang) The anus of a trans woman.

使用する際の注意点

• In technical discussions of anatomy, the vagina is a wholly internal structure and the vulva is wholly external, but in common use (since at least the 1930s), vagina can refer to the vulva or function as a general term for the entire genitalia.

派生語

関連する語

参照

• Fielding, Lucie (2021), Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96
• Zimman, Lal (1 August 2014), “The Discursive Construction of Sex: Remaking and Reclaiming the Gendered Body in Talk About Genitals Among Trans Men”, in Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality‎, Oxford UP, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 13–34

Further reading

• “vagina”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “vagina”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• Gavina

語源

From Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”). Tentatively cognate with Lithuanian vóžti (“to cover”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [waːˈɡiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [vaˈd͡ʒiː.na]

名詞

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. (literal) a sheath, scabbard
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.44:

     Avertit hic casus vaginam et gladium educere conanti dextram moratur manum, impeditumque hostes circumsistunt.

     This circumstance turns aside his scabbard and obstructs his right hand when attempting to draw his sword: the enemy crowd around him when [thus] embarrassed.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.579:

     Dixit, vaginaque eripit ensem fulmineum, strictoque ferit retinacula ferro.

     He said, and from its scabbard forth he flashed the lightning of his sword, with his sword he struck the hawsers.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.928–930:

     ‘inquinet arma situs, cōnātusque aliquis vāgīnā dūcere ferrum adstrictum longā sentiat esse morā.’

     Literally:
     ‘‘May [rust] stain weapons having been set down, and anyone having tried to draw from the scabbard to be feeling the iron having been tightened by a prolonged delay.’’
     Or in more natural English:
     ‘‘May rust stain disused weapons, and let anyone who tries to pull his sword from the scabbard feel it stuck by long neglect.’’

   Mitte gladium in vaginam. ― Put the sword into its sheath.

   Gladium vaginā proripere. ― To draw a sword from the sheath hastily.

2. (transferred sense) the covering, sheath, holder of anything
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XI.198:

     Omnia quidem principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit providens natura.

     Indeed provident Nature has enclosed all the principal internal organs with special membranes serving as sheaths.

   Cremato eo (corpore), inimici ... remeanti animae veluti vaginam ademerint.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   1. the hull, husk
   2. (anatomy) the vagina
   3. (zootomy, in cats) the sheath of a claw

使用する際の注意点

The anatomical sense is a Medieval euphemism not attested in Classical literature. The Classical term would be cunnus, sometimes considered vulgar.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• ēvāgīnō (verb)
• neovāgīna (New Latin, surgery)
• vāgīnālis (adjective)
• vāgīnula (diminutive)

関連する語

• ēvaginātiō

派生した語

参照

• "vagina", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "vagina", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vagina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vagina”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "vagina", in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vagina", in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “vagina”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.