Virginia

From Latin Virginia, feminine form of Virginius or Verginius, a Roman family name, possibly identical with Vergilius. The state/colony was named for Elizabeth I as the Virgin Queen, equivalent to virgin + -ia.

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• (US) IPA^(key): /vɚˈd͡ʒɪn.jə/

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Virginia (countable and uncountable, plural Virginias)

1. A state of the United States. Official name: Commonwealth of Virginia.

   Synonyms: Old Dominion, State of Virginia, VA, Va., Virg.

   • 1622 [1620], “Mayflower Compact”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes‎, page 313:

     We, whose names are underwritten, the loyall Subjects of our dread Soveraigne Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the glorie of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and the honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia; doe by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill Body politike, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid:[...]

2. A former colony that was a part of the British Empire
3. (astronomy) 50 Virginia, a main belt asteroid.
4. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1380s-1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Physician's Tale

     "Daughter," quoth he, "Virginia by thy name, / There be two wayes, either death or shame, / That thou must suffer, - alas that I was bore!

   • 1840, Frederick Marryat, chapter III, in Poor Jack:

     Here, in due time, she was brought to bed of a daughter, whom she christened by the name of Virginia; not so much out of respect to her last mistress, who bore that name, as because she considered it peculiarly ladylike and genteel.

   • 1854, Lydia Howard Sigourney, The Western Home, and Other Poems, Parry & McMillan, published 1854, page 87:

     O sweet Virginia Dare! / Thou art the lily of our love, / The forest's sylph-like queen, / The first-born bud from Saxon stem / That this New World hath seen!

   • 1956, Charlotte Armstrong, A Dram of Poison, Coward-McCann, pages 164–165:

     She said her name was Virginia Severson. It suited her. She looked very virginal, and clean, calm, cool in a Scandinavian sort of way.

5. Any of several places, in the United States and elsewhere:
   1. A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
   2. A town, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
   3. A community in the town of Georgina, Ontario, Canada.
   4. A municipality of the Lempira department, Honduras.
   5. A town in County Cavan, Ireland.
   6. A suburb of Monrovia, Liberia.
   7. A gold mining town in Free State, South Africa.
   8. The former name of an unincorporated community in Placer County, California, now Virginiatown.
   9. A city, the county seat of Cass County, Illinois, United States.
   10. A city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
   11. An unincorporated community in Bates County, Missouri, United States.
   12. A village in Gage County, Nebraska, United States.

• (astronomy): 50 Virginia, ㊿

• (given name diminutives) Ginny, Ginger

• Virginia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Virginien (rare)

Borrowed from English Virginia.

Virginia (genitive Virginias)

1. Virginia (a state of the United States)

From English Virginia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋirɡi(ː)niɑ/, [ˈʋirɡi(ː)ˌniɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Vir‧gi‧ni‧a

Virginia

1. Virginia (a state of the United States)

Borrowed from English Virginia, from Latin Virginia.

• IPA^(key): /virˈd͡ʒi.nja/
• Rhymes: -inja
• Hyphenation: Vir‧gì‧nia

Virginia f

1. Virginia (a state of the United States)
2. a female given name from Latin

• Virginia Occidentale

• viragini

From earlier Verginia, feminine form of Verginius, a Roman family name, possibly identical with Vergilius. Altered in spelling possibly by folk etymology association with virgō (“maiden, virgin”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯irˈɡi.ni.a/, [u̯ɪrˈɡɪniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /virˈd͡ʒi.ni.a/, [virˈd͡ʒiːniä]

Virginia f (genitive Virginiae, masculine Virginius); first declension

1. A feminine praenomen.

First-declension noun.

• English: Virginia
• Spanish: Virginia

• “Virginia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Virginia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Virginia f sg (genitive Virginiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Virginia (a state of the United States)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Virginia Occidentālis

• Henry Beard, Latin for All Occasions, 1990, →ISBN, title page in Latin and English.)

Borrowed from English Virginia, from Latin Virginia.

• IPA^(key): /biɾˈxinja/ [biɾˈxi.nja]
• Rhymes: -inja
• Syllabification: Vir‧gi‧nia

Virginia f

1. Virginia (a state of the United States)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Virginia

• Virginia on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es