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語源

Learned borrowing from Latin vulva, earlier volva (“womb, female sexual organ”), probably from volvō (“to turn, wrap around”). Akin to Sanskrit उल्ब॑ (úlba) and उल्व॑ (úlva, “womb”) or English valve, valva and other descendants of the Latin term (evolve, involve, revolve).

発音

• IPA: /ˈvʌlvə/
• 韻: -ʌlvə

名詞

vulva (plural vulvas or vulvae or vulvæ)

1. (anatomy) The external female genitalia of humans and other placental mammals, which includes the clitoris, labia, and vulval vestibule/vulvar opening.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva

   Hypernym: genitals

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 247:

     The vulvae of the sow were popular as a gourmet's dish. Credited with erotic effects.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:

     The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 216:

     Many of the less-sophisticated works are sexual in nature. Among the most common images are stylised vulvas, whole flocks of which appear on some cave walls.

2. (biology) A protrusion on the side of a nematode.

使用する際の注意点

See usage notes at vagina for the difference between vulva and vagina.

上位語

• genital tubercle (clitoris), urogenital sinus (vulval vestibule), urogenital folds (labia minora), labioscrotal swellings (labia majora) - embryological precursors
• external genitalia

派生語

Further reading

• vulva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”). Cognates include Sanskrit उल्ब (ulba).

Compare typologically vīscus (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weys-).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈwʊɫ.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈvul.va]

名詞

vulva f (genitive vulvae); first declension

1. (anatomy) the womb

   Synonyms: mātrīx, uterus

   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horatius, Epistulae I.XV:

     Nīl melius turdō, nīl vulvā pulchrius amplā.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (anatomy, chiefly Medieval Latin) the vagina (the external orifice of the female reproductive tract)

   Synonyms: (euphemistic) vāgīna, (vulgar) cunnus, (medieval) valva

   Holonyms: verētrum, muliebria, pudenda, verenda, genitālia, partēs, membra, nātūra

使用する際の注意点

• Unlike its English descendant, refers to the vagina (the internal tract) and not to the vulva (the external genitals), even medievally.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• vulvula, volvula

Further reading

• “uulua” on page 2341 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “vulva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vulva”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.