femele

• femaille, femal, female, femawle, femayll, femel, femelle, femmale, ffemale

Borrowed from Old French femele, from Latin fēmella. Some forms are influenced by male (“male”).

• IPA^(key): /fɛːˈmɛːl(ə)/, /ˈfɛːmɛl(ə)/
• (influenced by male) IPA^(key): /fɛːˈmaːl(ə)/

femele

1. female (of feminine sex or gender)
2. Used in extended reference to supposedly "female" gems, trees, plants, or astrological portents.

• femynyne

• English: female
• Scots: female

• “fēmē̆l(e, -āl(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

femele (plural femeles)

1. A woman; a female human or animal.

• English: female
• Scots: female

• “fēmē̆l(e, -āl(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Latin fēmella f, a diminutive of fēmina (“woman”).

femele m (oblique and nominative feminine singular femele)

1. female

• femmette f
• femelette f

• Middle French: femelle
  • French: femelle
    • → Romanian: femelă f
• → Middle English: femele, femaille, femal, female, femawle, femayll, femel, femelle, femmale, ffemale
  • English: female
  • Scots: female

• IPA^(key): /feˈme.le/

femele

1. plural of femelă