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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la virgō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [wɪrˈɡɪ.ne.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [virˈd͡ʒiː.ne.us]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''virgineus''' (feminine virginea, neuter virgineum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
+ The spelling ''virginius'' is also found.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|virgō|-eus|t1=girl, maiden]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The origin of [[m|la|virgō]] is unclear: Walde and Hofmann took it as made from [[m|la|virga|t=twig, rod]], and a proposed compound “young woman” is rejected by de Vaan on formal and semantic grounds.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008) who has the fillet tied round Iphigenia's “maiden locks”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means belonging to or typical of a girl of marriageable age, and of places haunted by such girls, nymphs or Muses.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is the poets' word for [[virginalis|alt=virginālis]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) From the state of virginity it is used of virgin goddesses, as Horace's Orion “tamed by the virgin's arrow” of Diana, and of virgin soil in Columella.^(OLD 2012) It also refers to the constellation Virgo in Manilius and to the aqueduct Aqua Virgo in Ovid.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of Iphigenia's maiden locks.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of loosening the virgin's girdle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of Diana's arrow.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st century AD – Columella of virgin soil, and Manilius of the constellation Virgo.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Of a girl or [[m|en|maiden]], [[m|en|maidenly]]; of places, haunted by nymphs or Muses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # [[m|en|virgin|alt=Virgin]]; of or proper to a virgin or a virgin goddess; of soil, unworked.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Of the constellation [[m|en|Virgo]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # Of the aqueduct Aqua Virgo at Rome.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[virgō]]
+ * [[virginalis|alt=virginālis]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}