Masculine
Meaning

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
vir‧gen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbiɾxen/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin virginem (the expected normal result in Spanish would be *vercen). Also a doublet of the completely learned borrowing virgo.

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