nympha

American  

[nim-fuh] / ˈnɪm fə /

noun

plural

nymphae

1. Anatomy. one of the inner labia of the vulva.

2. nymph.

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nympha British  

/ ˈnɪmfə /

noun

1. Also called: labium minus pudendi.  anatomy either one of the labia minora

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Etymology

Origin of nympha

1595–1605; < Latin nympha ( nymph )

Example Sentences

In one of his Latin epigrams occurs the celebrated line upon the miracle at Cana: Vidit et erubuit nympha pudica Deum: as englished by Dryden, The conscious water saw its Lord and blushed.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

She suffered a wound on the internal surface of the left nympha 1 1/2 inch long and 1/2 inch deep.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

In the last line of Crashaw's epigram the reading in Poemata Anglorum Latina is 'Vidit et erubuit nympha pudica Deum.'

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

"O lacrymarum fons, tenero sacros Ducemtium ortus ex animo, quater Felix, in imo qui scatentem Pectore, te, pia nympha, sensit."

From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles

Virgil makes his wife's name Marica—     Hunc Fauna, et nympha genitum Laurente Marica     Accipimus.—Aen. vii.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius