virago

Borrowed from Latin virāgō (“warlike or heroic woman”).

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈɹɑːɡəʊ/
• Hyphenation: vi‧ra‧go

virago (plural viragos or viragoes)

1. A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation; a shrew, a termagant.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.

2. A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated.
3. A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive.

1964, Joan was all Arden, grinning there, siding with her virago mother. — Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun

• (belligerent woman): See Thesaurus:shrew
• (domineering woman): See Thesaurus:shrew
• (loud woman):

• viraginity
• viraginous

• See virtue#Related_terms

From Latin virāgō

• IPA^(key): /vi.ʁa.ɡo/

virago f (plural viragos)

1. virago

From Latin virāgō

• IPA^(key): /viˈra.ɡo/
• Hyphenation: vi‧ra‧go

virago f (invariable or literary plural: viragini)

1. amazon

• argivo, giravo, rigavo, rogavi, vagirò

From vir (“man”) +‎ -āgō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wiˈraː.ɡoː/, [wɪˈraː.ɡoː]

virāgō f (genitive virāginis); third declension

1. a warlike woman

Third declension.

• → English: virago
• → French: virago
• → Portuguese: virago

• virago in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• virago in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• virago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• virago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin virāgō.

• Hyphenation: vi‧ra‧go

virago f (plural viragos)

1. (derogatory) a manly woman