Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonvirile

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-vir-ile
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in some Slavic languages for plurals of masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine, and neuter nouns, i.e. for all groups that do not include men or personal masculine nouns.

Example Sentences

"Then there is a consistency, if this feminine theory is true, in the old-womanlike faces of the middle-aged Pueblo Indians; they are stout and appear nonvirile and non-sexual."
"Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual […]"
"As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names."
"The nonvirile form is used for nouns of masculine gender not referring to human beings and for neuter and feminine gender nouns. […] Numerals from five through ten distinguish between two forms: the form for virile gender nouns and the form for nonvirile gender nouns which the numerals quantify."

Etymology

From non- + virile.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Inflected Forms

non-virile (alternative)

Antonyms

virile

Questions

What does nonvirile mean?: Not virile.
Where does nonvirile come from?: From non- + virile.

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