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Virgo constellation map

Proper noun

Virgo (symbol ♍)

1. (astronomy): A constellation in the zodiac, imagined in the shape of a maiden, that contains the bright binary star Spica.
   • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 3,

     Now, masters, draw. [They shoot.] O, well said, Lucius! Good boy, in Virgo’s lap.

2. (astrology): The zodiac sign for the virgin, ruled by Mercury, that covers August 23 - September 22 (tropical astrology) or September 16 - October 15 (sidereal astrology).

Derived terms

• Virginis
• Virgoan

Related terms

• (astronomy): Vir (abbreviation)

Translations

Noun

Virgo ‎(plural Virgos)

1. Someone with a Virgo star sign

Synonyms

• Virgoan

Antonyms

• Pisces

Translations

See also

• (Western astrology signs) Western astrology sign; Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces ^{(Category: en:Astrology)}

Anagrams

• vigor

Latin

Proper noun

Virgō m ‎(genitive Virgōnis); third declension

1. A male given name, character in the play Persa of Plautus.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Virgo f

1. (astronomy) Virgo (constellation)

Spanish

Proper noun

Virgo m

1. Virgo (constellation)

Latin

Noun

virgō f ‎(genitive virginis); third declension

1. a maid, maiden, virgin, sexually intact woman (compare puella)
   • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.37.63

     […] cum Decimus quidam Verginius virginem filiam propter unius ex illis X viris intemperiem in foro sua manu interemisset

     […] that a certain Decimus Virginius was obliged, on account of the libidinous violence of one of these decemvirs, to stab his virgin daughter in the midst of the forum

   • c. 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe

     Mater virginis in medio est.

     The maiden's mother is alive.

2. (by extension) a young woman, girl
3. (by extension, Ecclesiastical, of the Church Fathers) a male virgin
4. (by extension, of things) an adjectival appellative for unwedded, pure, unused
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.15

     […] terram virginem […]

     […] virgin soil […]

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• virgo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• virgo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VIRGO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “virgo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin virgō.

Noun

virgo

1. Virgin.