feminine

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That which is feminine.
  2. A woman. obsolete,possibly,rare
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  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.
  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.

词形变化

more feminine comparative most feminine superlative f. alternative,abbreviation f alternative,abbreviation fœminine alternative,hypercorrect,obsolete feminines plural f. alternative,abbreviation f alternative,abbreviation fœminine alternative,hypercorrect,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
caring ladylike nurturing beauty fem feminine femme girlish girly ladyish maidenly matronly womanish Of a man camp effeminate epicene fruity soft swish unmanly unmasculine
反义词
male manly butch masculine neuter androgynous
上位词
guise
下位词
housewifely housewifey housewifish wifely wifey wifish uxorial
衍生词
antifeminine cisfeminine feminine caesura feminine ending feminine hygiene femininely feminineness feminine of center feminine product feminine rhyme femininism femininity femininization femininize feminize feminoid hyperfeminine infeminine masculofeminine nonfeminine overfeminine pseudofeminine superfeminine suprafeminine transfeminine ultrafeminine unfeminine
相关词
she- female

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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