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Nov 17, 2023 · The "male-or-female sex" sense of the word is attested in English from early 15c. As sex (n.) took on erotic qualities in 20c., gender came to be the usual English word for "sex of a human being," in which use it was at first regarded as colloquial or humorous. Later often in feminist writing with reference to social attributes as much as ...
- Cisgender
word-forming element meaning "on the near side of, on this...
- Transgender
word-forming element meaning "across, beyond, through, on...
- Deutsch (German)
Gender-bender stammt aus dem Jahr 1977 und wurde ab 1980...
- Français (French)
Gender-bender vient de 1977, popularisé à partir de 1980, en...
- Sound
sound (v.2) "fathom, probe, measure the depth of water" with...
- Cool
Slang use of cool for "fashionable" is by 1933, originally...
- Feminine
The spelling femele is etymological but in Middle English...
- Noel
Noel. (n.). late 14c., nowel, nouel "Christmas, the Feast of...
- Genuine
genuine. (adj.). 1590s, "natural, not acquired," from Latin...
- Genocide
genocide. (n.). 1944, apparently coined by Polish-born U.S....
- Cisgender
Jun 8, 2022 · It’s as if binary sex (itself a five-layered process) passes its credentials to binary gender — thus the presumption that gender is a twosome, named as either “girl” or “boy.” In the words of Fausto-Sterling: “this identification” of the child’s sex from the child’s “external genital anatomy” then “initiate[s] a social ...
Derivation. The modern English word gender comes from the Middle English gender, gendre, a loanword from Anglo-Norman and Middle French gendre. This, in turn, came from Latin genus. Both words mean "kind", "type", or "sort".
The earliest known use of the verb gender is in the 1820s. OED's earliest evidence for gender is from 1825, in the writing of J. Lewis. It is also recorded as a noun from the Middle English period (1150—1500).
gender is one of the 5,000 most common words in modern written English. It is similar in frequency to words like alter, consistent, discovery, maintenance, and virtue. It typically occurs about 40 times per million words in modern written English.
Gender in English. A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during the Middle English period; therefore, Modern English largely does not have grammatical gender.
Oct 30, 2023 · Spoken and written from the 5th century until the Norman Conquest, Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was brought to England by the Germanic and Scandinavian tribes who settled there. It has its own vocabulary, its own grammar and even its own alphabet (which is called futhorc).
