| 词源 |
vagina. Vagina, for “the female sexual organ,” the word first recorded in 1682, comes from the Latin vagina, “a sheath, a scabbard.” Vanilla, the plant that produces the vanilla bean, de- rives from the same source, being a scientific Latin reshaping of the Spanish vainilla (from the Latin vagina), meaning “little sheath,” in reference to the bean’s pod. See vanilla. |