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per vaginam

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
per -vagi-nam
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Through the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) by the vaginal route of administration.

Etymology

Naturalized into medical English from neoclassical use of Latin in the professions. Exists in loanword form (retaining the Latin inflection, -am) and also in a further naturalized form with reanalysis in English morphology, per vagina = per + vagina, in parallel with other per + [English noun] constructions, such as per instructions or per statute.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

per vagina (alternative)

Synonyms

PV vaginally

Questions

What does per vaginam mean?
Through the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) by the vaginal route of administration.
Where does per vaginam come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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