English

Noun

inguen ‎(plural inguens)

1. (anatomy) The groin.
   • 1909, Transactions of the third International Sanitary Conference of the American Republics

     Ganglions of the right and of the left inguens […]

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷ-en-, related to Ancient Greek ἀδήν ‎(adḗn) and Old Norse ökkvinn.

Alternative forms

• (Late Latin) inguina

Noun

inguen n ‎(genitive inguinis); third declension

1. (anatomy) groin
2. privates (sexual organs)

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Derived terms

• inguinālis

Descendants

References

• inguen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inguen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inguen”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.