fēmĭnĕus, a, um, adj. [femina], of or belonging to a woman, womanly, feminine (rare but class. and mostly poet.) = muliebris.
I Prop.: feminae vir feminea interemor manu, Cic. Tusc. 2, 8, 20 (in version of Soph. Trachin.): femineae vocis exilitas, Quint. 1, 11, 1: quatuor ille quidem juvenes totidemque crearat Femineae sortis, i. e. of the female sex , Ov. M. 6, 680: sors, id. ib. 13, 651; cf. sexus, Plin. 36, 16, 25, § 129: artus, Ov. M. 10, 729: catervae, Val. Fl. 4, 603: labor, Tib. 2, 1, 63; Ov. Am. 1, 13, 23: dolor, id. M. 9, 151: clamor, id. ib. 12, 226; cf. vox, id. ib. 3, 536; 4, 29: plangores, Verg. A. 2, 488: Marte cadendum, i. e. by the hand of a woman , Ov. M. 12, 610: amor, i. e. love for a woman , id. Am. 3, 2, 40: cupido, id. M. 9, 734: venus, id. ib. 10, 80: poena, i. e. executed on a woman , Verg. A. 2, 584: Calendae, i. e. the first of March (on which the Matronalia were celebrated), Juv. 9, 53: ceroma, for women's use , id. 6, 246.—
II Transf., with an accessory notion of contempt, womanish , effeminate , unmanly : vox, Quint. 1, 11, 1; cf. Ov. A. A. 3, 286: pectus, Ov. M. 13, 693: amor praedae, Verg. A. 11, 782: lunae femineum et molle sidus, Plin. 2, 101, 104, § 223.