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発音

• IPA: /vɪˈɹɑːɡəʊ/
• ハイフネーション: vi‧ra‧go

名詞

virago (plural viragos or viragoes)

1. A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation.

   Synonyms: shrew, termagant; see also Thesaurus:shrew

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:

     Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, chapter III, in Nothing Like the Sun:

     Joan was all Arden, grinning there, siding with her virago mother.

2. A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated.

   Synonyms: shrew; see also Thesaurus:shrew

3. A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive.

派生語

• viraginian
• viraginity
• viraginous
• virago sleeve

関連する語

• virtue

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [wɪˈraː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [viˈraː.ɡo]

名詞

virāgō f (genitive virāginis); third declension

1. a female warrior, a warlike woman
2. a woman
3. a wife

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Italian: virago
• → English: virago
• → French: virago
• → German: Virago
• → Portuguese: virago

参照

• “virago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “virago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "virago", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “virago”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.