virgen

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See also: Virgen

Spanish

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbiɾxen/ [ˈbiɾ.xẽn]
  • Rhymes: -iɾxen
  • Syllabification: vir‧gen

Adjective

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virgen m or f (masculine and feminine plural vírgenes)

  1. virgin
  2. blank
    Synonym: en blanco
    CD virgenblank CD
    llave virgenkey blank

Noun

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virgen m or f by sense (plural vírgenes)

  1. virgin

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ “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

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