The corpus record — Latin

femininus

femininus · adj

of the feminine gender

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Institutio Oratoria 4 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

fēmĭnīnus — Lewis & Short

fēmĭnīnus, a, um, adj.femina, in gram.,

I of the feminine gender, feminine: nomen, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 6; Quint. 1, 5, 54; 1, 6, 14 et saep.; cf.: quae feminina positione mares significant, id. 1, 4, 24: funis masculinum sit an femininum, id. 1, 4, 24: sexus, Dig. 2, 8, 2, § 3; Gai. Inst. 1, 130: persona, id. ib. 1, 150; 3, 24.—Adv.: fēmĭnīnē, femininely, of the feminine gender (postclass.), Arn. 1, 36; Charis. p. 55 P.; Fest. s. v. Petronia, p. 250, 15 Müll.

In the wild

feminina Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.4.24
femininumve Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.68
femininum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.6.5
feminini Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.16.p3
feminini Suetonius, C. Caligula 7.1
feminini Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 5

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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