# groin
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* IPA: /ɡɹɔɪn/
* Rhymes: -ɔɪn
* Homophone: groyne

### Etymology 1

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

#### Noun

groin (plural groins)
* The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
** 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎:The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
* The area adjoining this fold or depression.
    He pulled a muscle in his groin.
* (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
* (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
* (euphemistic) The genitals.
    He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
** 1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 5:My friend […] discovered in his early teen years a passion for both men and opera. He frequented the Met to satisfy his ear but had little knowledge or experience of where to find partners and satisfy his groin.

##### Coordinate terms

* inguinal

##### Derived terms

* groinal
* groined
* groinfield
* groin field
* groinful
* groin vault
* groinward
* groinwards
* lupoid form of groin ulceration
* serpiginous ulceration of the groin
* tendergroin

##### Translations
#### Verb

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)
* To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
    In the scrum he somehow got groined.
    She groined him and ran to the car.
* (architecture) To build with groins.
* (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
** 1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting:Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).

#### Verb

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)
* To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
** c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
    Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes, Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:Beares, that groynd continually

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

groin (plural groins)
* Alternative spelling of groyne

### Anagrams

* Gorin, O-ring, Ringo, giron

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French groing, gruing, from Late Latin grunium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁwɛ̃/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

groin m (plural groins)
* the snout of the pig

### Further reading

* “groin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* giron

## Middle English
### Noun

groin
* Alternative form of groyn