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virgĭnālis

virgĭnālis · adj

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virgĭnālis — Lewis & Short

virgĭnālis, e, adj.virgo,

I of or belonging to a maiden or virgin, maidenly, virgin, virginal.

I Adj.: habitus, vestitus, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 5: forma, Gell. 14, 4, 2: modestia, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66: verecundia, Cic. Quint. 11, 39; App. M. 1, p. 112, 32: ploratus, a wailing like a girl, id. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 21: feles, a girl-stealer, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 43; cf. virginarius: Fortuna, i. e. Venus, as the tutelary goddess of maidens, Arn. 2, 91 (cf. Varr. ap. Non. 149, 25).—

II Subst.: virgĭnāle, is, n., = pudenda muliebria, Phaedr. 4, 14, 14; also in the form virginal, Prud. stef. 14, 8; Sol. 1 med.; and in plur.: virginalia, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 8.

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