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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishmasculyne,masculyn, fromOld Frenchmasculin, fromLatinmasculīnus, diminutive ofmasculus(“male, manly”), itself a diminutive ofmās(“male”). Displaced nativeOld Englishwerlīċ(literally“manly”).

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Adjective

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masculine (comparativemoremasculine,superlativemostmasculine)

  1. Of or pertaining to themalegender.
  2. Of or pertaining to themalesex; biologically male, not female.
    Synonym:male
    Antonyms:female,womanly
  3. Belonging to males; typically used by males.
    “John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” aremasculine names.
  4. Having the qualities stereotypically associated withmen:virile,aggressive, noteffeminate;manly.
    • 1818,Henry Hallam,View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages:
      That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with amasculine energy.
    • 1655,Thomas Fuller,The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […],→OCLC,(please specify |book=I to XI):
      […] amasculine church.
    Synonyms:manly,virile
    Antonyms:effeminate,emasculated,epicene,unmanly
  5. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammaticalgender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
    Synonym:male
    Coordinate terms:feminine,neuter,common
    1. (of anoun) Being of the masculine class or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
      The nounStudent ismasculine in German.
    2. (of anotherpart of speech) Being inflected in agreement with a masculine noun.
      German uses themasculine form of the definite article,der, withStudent.
  6. (grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having thevowel harmony of aback vowel.
    Coordinate term:feminine
  7. (prosody) Following or ending on a stressed syllable.

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Translations

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of the male sex; biologically male, not female; manly
belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males
having male qualities, not feminine or effeminate
grammar: being of the masculine class, being inflected in the masculine manner
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Noun

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masculine (pluralmasculines)

  1. (grammar) The masculine gender.
    • 2009, Carlos Quiles, Fernando López-Menchero,A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition:
      Themasculine functions as the negative term in the opposition, i.e. when the gender is not defined, themasculine is used.
  2. (grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
    • 1905, George Theodore Dippold,A German grammar for high schools and colleges:
      As to the class to which themasculines of the strong declension belong, we repeat that[…]
  3. That which is masculine.
    • 2004, Leonora Leet,The Universal Kabbalah:
      These forces would also seem to reflect the gender distinction that can be made with respect to the divine, the feminine associated with the divine as immanent within the finite and themasculine with the divine transcendence and the infinite.
  4. (rare, possibly obsolete) Aman.
    • 1868,The Ladies' Repository, A Universalist Monthly Magazine For The Home Circle. Volume XXXIX[39]‎[1], page 458 (left column):
      I think women, at least those who do their own work, would live very simply in that respect, if there were none of themasculines to feed.

Translations

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(grammar) the masculine gender
(grammar) a word of the masculine gender

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Adjective

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masculine

  1. femininesingular ofmasculin

Latin

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Adjective

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masculīne

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofmasculīnus

Adverb

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masculīnē (comparativemasculīnius,superlativemasculīnissimē,adjectivemasculīnus)

  1. masculinely
  2. (grammar) in themasculinegrammatical gender

References

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

Middle English

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Adjective

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masculine

  1. alternative form ofmasculyn

Romanian

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masculine

  1. inflection ofmasculin:
    1. indefinitefemininegenitive/dativesingular
    2. indefinitefeminine/neuternominative/accusative/genitive/dativeplural
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