femina

Etymology
From, perhaps via. .

Noun

 * 1) A wing feather from a female ostrich.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) feminine (of women), women's

Usage notes
Relatively uncommon; the synonym is generally used instead.

Etymology
, from, from , the feminine mediopassive participle of.

Noun

 * 1) woman

Etymology
Borrowed from, , , , from from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) female, feminine

Noun

 * 1) woman
 * 2) female

Etymology 1
From, from earlier *θēmanā, from , the feminine mediopassive participle of. Related to, ,.

Noun

 * 1) woman
 * 2) wife
 * 3)  female
 * 4)  the feminine gender
 * 1)  the feminine gender
 * 1)  the feminine gender
 * 1)  the feminine gender
 * 1)  the feminine gender

Usage notes
Aside from its use as an independent noun, it is often used appositively with the sense "female" to modify another noun (compare the coordinate term ). It can be used this way with either grammatically feminine or grammatically masculine nouns and retains first-declension forms in either case, as in "Caere porcus biceps et agnus mas idem feminaque natus erat" ("At Caere a two-headed piglet and a lamb-M.SG (that was) male and at the same time female was born-M.SG").

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Etymology 2
See.

Etymology 3
Inflected form of.