Back-formation fromfeminismo andfeministo.

• IPA^(key): /feˈmino/

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• Rhymes:-ino
• Hyphenation: fe‧mi‧no

femino (accusative singularfeminon,pluralfeminoj,accusative pluralfeminojn)

1. (rare, literary)woman
   • 1961,Esperantologio, volume 2, number 2,page138:

     Vespero obskuras. Adoleska, rustike vestita, dinafemino descendas haste la ŝtuparon de burgo.

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   • 1994 January 26, Don Harlow, “Re:[lingvo] Euxropeajxo (estis: ci/vi, -icx/-in, -o/-a)”, insoc.culture.esperanto‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved2017-09-30:

     Mi supozas, ke eble Robin Lakoff estas "feministo" cxar sxi profesie okupigxas pri la feminismo, aux lafeminoj, se ili efektive ekzistas; sed eble cxi tie "feminismisto" estus pli bona vorto.

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   • 2013, Julia Sigmond, Sen Rodin,Libazar' Kaj Tero,page98:

     Ni estis ĝuste aranĝantaj niajn vestaĵojn, kiam neanoncite, eĉ sen pordo-bruo, aperis en la ĉambro juna, beletafemino.

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Though now accepted in larger dictionaries, uncommon except in its "derived" terms. The synonymvirino is almost exclusively used instead.

• homino(“femalehuman being”)
• virino(“woman”)

• viro(“man”)

• homo(“human being”)
• persono(“person”)

• femina

FromLatinfēmina.

femino (pluralfemini)

1. female

• maskulo

Fromfēmina f +‎-ō, in reference to the role being seen as that of a woman.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.mi.noː/,[ˈfeːmɪnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈfe.mi.no/,[ˈfɛːmino]

fēminō (present infinitivefēmināre,perfect activefēmināvī,supinefēminātum);first conjugation

1. (Late Latin) tobottom; to adopt thesubmissive role ingaysex
   • c. 420CE,Caelius Aurelianus,Tardae Passiones 4.9.133:

     Nemo enim pruriens corpusfeminando correxit vel virilis veretri tactu mitigavit, sed communiter querelam sive dolorem alia ex materia toleravit.

     For no one has relieved his bodily longing bybeing used as a woman or by the touch of a male member, but one has generally endured the complaint or the pain by other means.

• “femino”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• femino inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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