I.of or belonging to a woman, womanly, feminine (rare but class. and mostly poet.) = muliebris.
I. 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.—
II. 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.
