fēmĭnĕus — Lewis & Short
fēmĭnĕus, a, um, adj.id.,
I 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.