virga – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of virga

Noun: virga
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singularvirga
Pluralvirgae

Genitive

Singularvirgae
Pluralvirgārum

Dative

Singularvirgae
Pluralvirgīs

Accusative

Singularvirgam
Pluralvirgās

Ablative

Singularvirgā
Pluralvirgīs

Vocative

Singularvirga
Pluralvirgae

Sample Sentences

  • flagellum equō et cāmus asinō et virgā dorsō inprūdentium (A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
  • (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)) [4th century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, Proverbs 26:3]
  • 8 AD . Fasti, Publius Ovidius Naso, Liber II, 703-704.
  • Illic Tarquinius mandata latentia nati
  • Accipit, et virga lilia summa metit.
  • There Tarquinius is receiving secret mandates of the son
  • And is knocking down with staff the tops of lilies.
  • Tum virgam capit: Hāc animās ille ēvocat Orcō
  • pallentīs, aliās sub Tartara trīstia mittit, [...]. (Then [Mercury] takes up his wand: With this he calls pale souls from Orcus, or sends others down to sorrowful Tartarus, ….
  • (Specifically, the caduceus that Mercury uses in his role as psychopompus.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.242–243]
  • sunt etiam singularia in medio constituta ne in unam partem praeiudicialiter vergentia alteram competenti decore nudarent: nasus, os, guttur, pectus, umbilicus, et genitalium virga descendens, quae laudabilia et honora monstrantur quando in medio locata consistunt. (These [body parts] are one by one placed in the middle, because if they converged to the same place, one would deprive the honour of another part. The nose, mouth, throat, chest, navel, and the rod of the genitals show their merit and excellence by being placed in the middle.) [ca. 540, Cassiodorus, On the Soul]

Nouns inflected like virga

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Uncertain. Traditionally, the term is derived from earlier *wizgā, itself from Proto-Indo-European *wis-g-, an extension of *weys-. De Vaan suggests a possible connection with Germanic forms such as Old Norse visk or Old English wisc, perhaps also entailing a PIE form of the shape *wis-g-. The term might be related to Latin vireō and virāgō. See: Old English Nouns 'wisc', Latin Nouns 'vireō'.

Verbs referencing "virga"

English Nouns whisk, English Nouns verge, French Nouns verge, Catalan Nouns verga, Galician Nouns verga, Italian Nouns verga, Portuguese Nouns verga, Spanish Nouns verga, English Nouns virga, English Nouns verge staff, French Nouns vergue, Romanian Nouns vargă, French Nouns vergette.

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