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menstruation

See also: Menstruation

English

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Etymology

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From menstruum +‎ -ation, modelled after Late Latin menstruatio. The word is cognate with French menstruation, Spanish menstruación,[1] displaced Old English mōnaþblōd (literally “monthblood”)).

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menstruation (countable and uncountable, plural menstruations)

  1. The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in unfertilized females of humans and other primates.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 267:
      It would seem that in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Malta the mystery cult of menstruation/mensuration reached its most consummate development.
    • 2002, Annie Potts, “Innerspace”, in The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabulares of Heterosex, Hove, East Sussex, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part 2 (The Vocabularies of Heterosex), page 180:
      [T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depict these two aspects of corporeality serve to situate them on differently gendered poles. Man ‘spoofs off’ or ‘shoots his load’, while woman ‘gets her visitor’, ‘has got her monthly’.
  2. An instance of menstruation, the part of each month during which a fertile woman menstruates.

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  1. ^ “menstruation, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2001.

Danish

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  • IPA(key): /mɛnsdʁuɑˈɕoˀn/, /mɛnsdʁuaˈɕoˀn/

Noun

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menstruation c (singular definite menstruationen, plural indefinite menstruationer)

  1. menstruation

Declension

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Declension of menstruation
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative menstruation menstruationen menstruationer menstruationerne
genitive menstruations menstruationens menstruationers menstruationernes

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menstruation f (plural menstruations)

  1. menstruation; period
    Synonym: règles

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Etymology

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menstruum +‎ -ation, modelled after Late Latin menstruatio. The word is cognate with French menstruation, English menstruation, Spanish menstruación.

Noun

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menstruation c

  1. menstruation
    Synonym: mens

Declension

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Declension of menstruation
nominative genitive
singular indefinite menstruation menstruations
definite menstruationen menstruationens
plural indefinite menstruationer menstruationers
definite menstruationerna menstruationernas
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