Etymology

vagina

va·gi·na
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Today it means: A sex organ for copulation and birth, found in female therian mammals, consisting of a passage between the vulval vestibule and the cervix of the uterus. Full definition →

Latin vāgīna ← Proto-Italic *wāgīnā
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wāgīnā
  2. Latinvāgīna
  3. English todayvagina

Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

Words from the same roots

Latinvāgīna all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.