Feminine

♀️

fêmea

Meaning

♀️

fêmeo

female

female person

female parents

maternal effects

ascendente por via materna

efeito de maternidade

θηλυκό

fēmina

θήλυ

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfẽ.me.ɐ/

Inherited from Latin

Cognate with Galician

Cognate with Spanish

Cognate with Occitan

Cognate with French

Cognate with Italian

Cognate with Romanian

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese femea, femẽa (“female”), from Latin fēmina (“woman, wife, female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Cognate with Galician femia, Spanish hembra, Occitan femna, French femme, Italian femmina and Romanian famen.

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