vaginaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /vəˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/
• 韻: -aɪnə

名詞

vagina (plural vaginas or vaginae or (廃れた用法) vaginæ)

1. (anatomy) The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

   • 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.
2. (botany) A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

   Synonym: sheath

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

   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!

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),^[1] vagina can refer to the vulva or function as a general term for the entire genitalia.

上位語

• genitals

派生語

関連する語

参照

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

Latin

別の表記

• uāgīna

語源

From Proto-Italic *wāgīnā (“sheath, scabbard”)^[1], possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“sheath, cover”).^[2]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aːˈɡiː.na/, [u̯äːˈɡiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈd͡ʒi.na/, [väˈd͡ʒiːnä]

名詞

vāgīna f (genitive vāgīnae); first declension

1. (literally) 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.

   • 43 BCE – c. 17 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

   Omnia principalia viscera membranis propriis ac velut vaginis inclusit natura.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   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

Not used medically/anatomically during classical times.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

派生語

• ēvāgīnō (verb)
• vāgīnālis (adjective)
• vāgīnula (diminutive)

関連する語

• ēvaginātiō

派生した語

Borrowings (anatomical sense)

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 かつ 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.