vulva
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vulva, earlier volva (“womb, female sexual organ”), probably from volvō (“to turn, wrap around”). Akin to Sanskrit उल्ब (úlba, “womb”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulva (plural vulvas or vulvae or vulvæ)
- (anatomy) The external female genitalia of humans and other placental mammals, which includes the clitoris, labia, and vulval vestibule/vulvar opening.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva
- Hypernym: genitals
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:
- The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 216:
- Many of the less-sophisticated works are sexual in nature. Among the most common images are stylised vulvas, whole flocks of which appear on some cave walls.
- (biology) A protrusion on the side of a nematode.
Usage notes
[edit]See usage notes at vagina for the difference between vulva and vagina.
Hypernyms
[edit]- genital tubercle (clitoris), urogenital sinus (vulval vestibule), urogenital folds (labia minora), labioscrotal swellings (labia majora) - embryological precursors
- external genitalia
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
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Further reading
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vulva.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulva f (plural vulvas or vulvae)
- vulva
- Synonyms: schaamspleet, voorbips
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- vagina (in specialist language the same sense as English vagina, but in colloquial language synonymous with vulva)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vulva.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulva
Declension
[edit]Inflection of vulva (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | vulva | vulvat | |
genitive | vulvan | vulvien | |
partitive | vulvaa | vulvia | |
illative | vulvaan | vulviin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | vulva | vulvat | |
accusative | nom. | vulva | vulvat |
gen. | vulvan | ||
genitive | vulvan | vulvien vulvain rare | |
partitive | vulvaa | vulvia | |
inessive | vulvassa | vulvissa | |
elative | vulvasta | vulvista | |
illative | vulvaan | vulviin | |
adessive | vulvalla | vulvilla | |
ablative | vulvalta | vulvilta | |
allative | vulvalle | vulville | |
essive | vulvana | vulvina | |
translative | vulvaksi | vulviksi | |
abessive | vulvatta | vulvitta | |
instructive | — | vulvin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “vulva”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vulva.
Noun
[edit]vulva f (plural vulvas)
Interlingua
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin vulva, Italian vulva, English vulva, Spanish vulva, Portuguese vulva, French vulve.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulva (plural vulvas)
Coordinate terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vulva, from earlier volva, from the Proto-Indo-European root *welH- (“to turn, wind”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulva f (plural vulve)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”). Cognates include Sanskrit उल्ब (ulba).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ul.u̯a/, [ˈu̯ʊɫ̪u̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvul.va/, [ˈvulvä]
Noun
[edit]vulva f (genitive vulvae); first declension
- (anatomy) the womb
- (anatomy, chiefly Medieval Latin) the vagina (the external orifice of the female reproductive tract)
Usage notes
[edit]- Unlike its English descendant, refers to the vagina (the internal tract) and not to the vulva (the external genitals), even medievally.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | vulva | vulvae |
Genitive | vulvae | vulvārum |
Dative | vulvae | vulvīs |
Accusative | vulvam | vulvās |
Ablative | vulvā | vulvīs |
Vocative | vulva | vulvae |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “uulua” on page 2341 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “vulva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vulva, from earlier volva, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: vul‧va
Noun
[edit]vulva f (plural vulvas)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin vulva, from earlier volva, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulva f (plural vulvas)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vulva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulva c
Declension
[edit]See also
[edit]- blygdläppar (“labia”)
- urinrör (“urethra”)
- vagina
References
[edit]- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *welH-
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English learned borrowings from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ʌlvə
- Rhymes:English/ʌlvə/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Anatomy
- English terms with quotations
- en:Biology
- en:Genitalia
- Dutch terms borrowed from Latin
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- Dutch lemmas
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- Dutch nouns with Latin plurals
- Dutch feminine nouns
- nl:Anatomy
- Finnish terms borrowed from Latin
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- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ulʋɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ulʋɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Anatomy
- Finnish koira-type nominals
- Galician terms borrowed from Latin
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- gl:Anatomy
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- ia:Anatomy
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Italian/ulva
- Rhymes:Italian/ulva/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- it:Anatomy
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- la:Anatomy
- Medieval Latin
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- pt:Anatomy
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ulba
- Rhymes:Spanish/ulba/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Anatomy
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Anatomy