See virga on Wiktionary
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"2": "verga"
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},
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"2": "verga"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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},
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"1": "it",
"2": "verga"
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"name": "desc"
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},
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"2": "veargă"
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},
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"2": "vergue",
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"name": "desc"
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},
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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},
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},
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"2": "verge",
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}
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},
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"2": "verge"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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"2": "verga",
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},
"expansion": "Piedmontese: verga, vërga",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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{
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"1": "pt",
"2": "verga",
"3": "virga"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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"2": "vargă"
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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"2": "verga"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
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}
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"twig, young shoot"
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"feminine"
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{
"english": "A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.\n(trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)",
"ref": "4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, Proverbs 26:3",
"text": "flagellum equō et cāmus asinō et virgā dorsō inprūdentium"
}
],
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"rod, switch for flogging."
],
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[
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[
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"flog"
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"declension-1",
"feminine"
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{
"text": "8 AD . Fasti, Publius Ovidius Naso, Liber II, 703-704.\nIllic Tarquinius mandata latentia nati\nAccipit, et virga lilia summa metit.\nThere Tarquinius is receiving secret mandates of the son\nAnd is knocking down with staff the tops of lilies.",
"type": "example"
}
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],
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[
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],
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"walking stick"
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"feminine"
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{
"english": "Then [Mercury] takes up his wand: With this he calls pale souls from Orcus, or sends others down to sorrowful Tartarus, ….\n(Specifically, the caduceus that Mercury uses in his role as psychopompus.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.242–243",
"roman": "pallentīs, aliās sub Tartara trīstia mittit, ….",
"text": "Tum virgam capit: Hāc animās ille ēvocat Orcō"
}
],
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"wand (magical)"
],
"links": [
[
"wand",
"wand"
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],
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"declension-1",
"feminine"
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"Latin terms with quotations",
"Medieval Latin"
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{
"english": "These [body parts] are one by one placed in the middle, because if they converged to the same place, one would deprive the honour of another part. The nose, mouth, throat, chest, navel, and the rod of the genitals show their merit and excellence by being placed in the middle.",
"ref": "ca. 540, Cassiodorus, On the Soul",
"text": "sunt etiam singularia in medio constituta ne in unam partem praeiudicialiter vergentia alteram competenti decore nudarent: nasus, os, guttur, pectus, umbilicus, et genitalium virga descendens, quae laudabilia et honora monstrantur quando in medio locata consistunt."
}
],
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"penis"
],
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[
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"penis"
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],
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"(figuratively, Late Latin, Medieval Latin) penis"
],
"tags": [
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"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-1",
"feminine",
"figuratively"
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}
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"ipa": "/ˈu̯ir.ɡa/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈu̯ɪrɡä]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈvir.ɡa/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈvirɡä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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}
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"name": "head"
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"vir‧ga"
],
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"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
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"word": "virgo"
}
],
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"feminine singular of virgo"
],
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[
"virgo",
"virgo#Spanish"
]
],
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"feminine",
"form-of",
"singular"
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}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈbiɾɡa/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈbiɾ.ɣ̞a]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iɾɡa"
}
],
"word": "virga"
}
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