Virginia

From Latin Virginia, feminine form of Virginius or Verginius, a Roman family name, possibly identical with Vergilius. The state was named for Elizabeth I as the Virgin Queen.

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vɚˈdʒɪn.jə/

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Virginia

1. The Commonwealth of Virginia, a state of the United States of America.

   Synonyms: Old Dominion, State of Virginia, VA, Va., Virg.

   1. The area claimed by Virginia, including what are now West Virginia and Kentucky.
2. (astronomy) 50 Virginia, a main belt asteroid.
3. A female given name.
   • 1380s-1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Physician's Prologue and Tale

     "Daughter," quoth he, "Virginia by thy name, / There be two wayes, either death or shame, / That thou must suffer, - alas that I was bore!

   • 1840 Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack, Chapter III,

     Here, in due time, she was brought to bed of a daughter, whom she christened by the name of Virginia; not so much out of respect to her last mistress, who bore that name, as because she considered it peculiarly ladylike and genteel.

   • 1854 Lydia Howard Sigourney, The Western Home, and Other Poems, Parry & McMillan, 1854, page 87 ,

     O sweet Virginia Dare! / Thou art the lily of our love, / The forest's sylph-like queen, / The first-born bud from Saxon stem / That this New World hath seen!

   • 1956 Charlotte Armstrong, A Dram of Poison, Coward-McCann, pages 164-165:

     She said her name was Virginia Severson. It suited her. She looked very virginal, and clean, calm, cool in a Scandinavian sort of way.

4. Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere
   1. A city in Illinois, U.S., and county seat of Cass County.

• (given name diminutives) Ginny, Ginger

• Appendix:Place names in Virginia

• Virginia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Virginien (rare)

Borrowed from English Virginia.

Virginia (genitive Virginias)

1. Virginia

From earlier Verginia, feminine form of Verginius, a Roman family name, possibly identical with Vergilius. Altered in spelling possibly by folk etymology association with virgō (“maiden, virgin”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wirˈɡi.ni.a/, [wɪrˈɡɪ.ni.a]

Virginia f (genitive Virginiae); first declension

1. A feminine praenomen.

• English: Virginia
• Spanish: Virginia

• Virginia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Virginia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• IPA^(key): /birˈxinja/

Virginia f

1. Virginia (state)
2. A female given name, equivalent to English Virginia

• virginiano

• Virginia on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es