(adjective) : fēmĭnĕus, a, um, id.
* Of or belonging to a woman, womanly, feminine (rare but class. and mostly poet.) = muliebris.
* Prop.: feminae vir feminea interemor manu,Cic. Tusc. 2, 8, 20 (in version of Soph. Trachin.): femineae vocis exilitas,Quint. 1, 11, 1: quatuor ille quidem juvenes totidemque crearat Femineae sortis,i. e. of the female sex,Ov. M. 6, 680: sors,id. ib. 13, 651; cf. sexus,Plin. 36, 16, 25, § 129: artus,Ov. M. 10, 729: catervae,Val. Fl. 4, 603: labor,Tib. 2, 1, 63; Ov. Am. 1, 13, 23: dolor,id. M. 9, 151: clamor,id. ib. 12, 226; cf. vox,id. ib. 3, 536; 4, 29: plangores,Verg. A. 2, 488: Marte cadendum,i. e. by the hand of a woman,Ov. M. 12, 610: amor,i. e. love for a woman,id. Am. 3, 2, 40: cupido,id. M. 9, 734: venus,id. ib. 10, 80: poena,i. e. executed on a woman,Verg. A. 2, 584: Calendae, i. e. the first of March (on which the Matronalia were celebrated), Juv. 9, 53: ceroma,for women's use,id. 6, 246.
* Transf., with an accessory notion of contempt, womanish, effeminate, unmanly: vox, Quint, 1, 11, 1; cf. Ov. A. A. 3, 286: pectus,Ov. M. 13, 693: amor praedae,Verg. A. 11, 782: lunae femineum et molle sidus,Plin. 2, 101, 104, § 223.

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