inguen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inguen.

Noun

inguen (plural inguens)

(anatomy) The groin.
- 1909, Transactions of the third International Sanitary Conference of the American Republics
  Ganglions of the right and of the left inguens […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for inguen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

gunnie, ingenu

Latin

Alternative forms

(Late Latin) inguina

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷ-en-, related to Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn) and Old Norse ökkvinn.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ɡʷen/, [ˈɪŋ.ɡᶣɛn]

Noun

inguen n (genitive inguinis); third declension

(anatomy) groin
privates (sexual organs)

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inguen	inguina
Genitive	inguinis	inguinum
Dative	inguinī	inguinibus
Accusative	inguen	inguina
Ablative	inguine	inguinibus
Vocative	inguen	inguina

Derived terms

inguinālis

Descendants

English: inguen
Esperanto: ingveno
French: aine
Galician: ingua
Italian: inguine

Portuguese: íngua
Spanish: ingle
Romanian: inguină

References

inguen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
inguen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
inguen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette