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"gender" in seven languages

Meaninggender

Spanish

género

/ˈxeneɾo/

masc.learned

Also 'kind, genre' and 'goods, fabric'.

French

genre

/ʒɑ̃ʁ/

masc.inherited

Also 'kind, sort': ce genre de film.

Italian

genere

/ˈdʒɛnere/

masc.learned

Also 'kind': in genere means 'generally'.

Portuguese

gênero

/ˈʒeneɾu/

masc.learned

Romanian

gen

/dʒen/

neut.learned

Catalan

gènere

/ˈʒɛnəɾə/

masc.learned

English

gender

/ˈdʒɛndɚ/

from Latin/French · Old French gendre (now genre)

English → ItaliangendergenereCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

GENUS (gen. GENERIS)‘birth, kind, class’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

The Romance words are built on the stem GENER-. English kept the d of Old French gendre, which modern French dropped (genre, borrowed again by English).

English relatives: genre, general, generic, genus

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  • es¿Cuál es el género de este sustantivo?
  • frQuel est le genre de ce nom ?
  • itQual è il genere di questo sostantivo?
  • ptQual é o gênero deste substantivo?
  • roCe gen are acest substantiv?
  • caDe quin gènere és aquest nom?
  • enWhat is the gender of this noun?

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