virgen

See also: Virgen

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin virginem, singular accusative of virgō[1] (the expected normal result in Spanish would be *verzen[2]). Also a doublet of the completely learned borrowing virgo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbirxen/, [ˈbirxẽn]

Noun

virgen m or f (plural vírgenes)

  1. virgin

Derived terms

Further reading

References
  1. https://www.scribd.com/document/220768067/Corominas-Diccionario-Etimologico
  2. http://hispanoteca.eu/lexikon%20der%20linguistik/c/CULTISMO.htm
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