virginalis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

virgĭnālis, e, adj. [virgo], of or belonging to a maiden or virgin, maidenly, virgin, virginal.

I Adj. : habitus, vestitus, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5: forma, Gell. 14, 4, 2: modestia, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66: verecundia, Cic. Quint. 11, 39; Ap. Met. 1, 23, 8; ploratus, a wailing like a girl , id. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 21: feles, a girl-stealer , Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 43; cf. virginarius: Fortuna, i. e. Venus , as the tutelary goddess of maidens , Arn. 2, 91 (cf. Varr. ap. Non. 149, 25).—

II Subst.: virgĭnāle , is, n., = pudenda muliebria, Phaedr. 4, 14, 14; also in the form virginal, Prud. στεφ. 14, 8; Sol. 1 med. ; and in plur.: virginalia, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8.

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