Noun: menarche
| Singular | menarche |
| Plural | menarches |
Sample Sentences
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How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child. [1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:]
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The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl. [1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 252:]
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Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102:]
Nouns inflected like menarche
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested 1900, from German Menarche, formed from meno- + -arche. See: German Nouns '
Menarche'.
Verbs referencing "menarche"
Latin Nouns
menarche.