feminine

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//ˈfɛmɪnɪn//
//ˈfɛmənɪn//

Of or pertaining to the female gender.

aggettivo

1
Of or pertaining to the female gender.
2
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
3
Belonging to females; typically used by females.
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
4
Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.
Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.
Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
Ninias being esteemed no man of warre at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.
5
Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions. Being of the feminine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
6
Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions. Being inflected in agreement with a feminine noun.
Women's names were formed in the same way as men's, but with feminine terminations […]
7
Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
8
Following or ending on an unstressed syllable.
Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending, feminine rhyme.

Etimologia

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ Proto-Italic *θēmanā Proto-Italic *fēmanā Latin fēmina Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus Latin fēminīnusder. Old French femininbor. Middle English femynyne English feminine From Middle English feminine, femynyne, femynyn, from Old French feminin, feminine, from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”). Related to fetus, feminism, filial, fellatio.

sostantivo

1
That which is feminine.
2
obsoletoA woman.
They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.
3
The feminine gender.
4
A word of the feminine gender.
These changes being understood, it is easy to see how inaccurate it is to talk of she being the feminine, and they being the plural, of he. The different words belong to different systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another, than (to use a well-known illustration) puss is the vocative case of cat.

Forme

plurale: feminines
comparativo: more feminine
superlativo: most feminine

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feminine · Of or pertaining to the female gender.

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Le pagine vicine — L'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.