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Latest revision as of 02:41, 3 September 2013 English[edit] Wikipedia Etymology[edit] From Old French masculin, from Latin masculīnus, diminutive of masculus ("male, manly"), itself a diminutive of mās ("male"). Pronunciation[edit] Adjective[edit] masculine (comparative more masculine, superlative most masculine) - Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
- Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
- Belonging to females; typically used by males.
- "John", "Paul", and "Jake" are masculine names.
- Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
- Henry Hallam:
- That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
- Thomas Fuller:
- […] a masculine church.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have sex-based gender distinctions.
- (of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
- The noun Student is masculine in German.
- (of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.
- German uses the masculine of the definite article, der, with Student.
Synonyms[edit] - (of the male sex): male
- (having qualities stereotypical of the male gender): manly, virile
Antonyms[edit] Derived terms[edit] Translations[edit] 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 - Albanian: mashkullor (sq)
- Armenian: առնական (hy) (aṙnakan)
- Catalan: masculí, viril
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 男性的 (zh) (nánxìng de), 男子氣的 (zh) (nánxìng de), 男子气的 (zh) (nánzǐqì de), 男子漢的 (zh), 男子汉的 (zh) (nánzǐhàn de)
- Czech: mužský (cs), mužný (cs)
- Danish: maskulin (da), mandig (da)
- Dutch: mannelijk (nl)
- Estonian: mehelik (et), maskuliinne (et)
- Finnish: miehekäs (fi), maskuliininen (fi)
- French: masculin (fr)
- Galician: masculino (gl)
- German: männlich (de), maskulin (de)
- Greek: ανδρικός (el) m (andrikós), αρσενικός (el) m (arsenikós)
- Hindi: मर्दाना (hi) (mardāna)
- Indonesian: maskulin (id)
- Italian: masculino (it) m
| | - Japanese: 男性的な (ja) (だんせいてきな, danseiteki na)
- Jèrriais: mastchulîn
- Korean: 남자 같은 (ko) (namja gateun)
- Latin: masculīnus (la), masculus (la)
- Lithuanian: vyriškas (lt)
- Maori: whakatāne (mi)
- Marathi: पुरुषी (puruShi)
- Norwegian: maskulin (no), mandig (no)
- Pashto: نر (ps) (nër), نارينه (ps) (nâriná)
- Persian: مردانه (fa) (mardâne)
- Polish: męski (pl) m
- Romanian: masculin (ro), bărbătesc (ro), viril (ro)
- Russian: мужской (ru) (mužskój), мужеподобный (ru) (mužepodóbnyj), маскулинный (ru) (maskulínnyj), мужественный (ru) (múžestvennyj)
- Spanish: masculino (es) m
- Swedish: maskulin (sv), manlig (sv)
- Urdu: مردانہ (ur) (mardāna)
- Volapük: manik (vo)
- West Frisian: manlik
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grammar: being of the masculine class, being inflected in the masculine manner - The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked masculine (plural masculines) - (grammar) The masculine gender.
- 2009, Carlos Quiles, Fernando López-Menchero, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition:
- The masculine functions as the negative term in the opposition, i.e. when the gender is not defined, the masculine is used.
- (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 the masculines of the strong declension belong, we repeat that […]
- 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 the masculine with the divine transcendence and the infinite.
- (rare, possibly obsolete) A man.
- 1868, The Ladies' repository: Volumes 39-40[1]:
- I think women, at least those who do their own work, would live very simply in that respect, if there were none of the masculines to feed.
Translations[edit] Anagrams[edit]
Pronunciation[edit] Adjective[edit] masculine - feminine form of masculin
Adjective[edit] masculīne - vocative masculine singular of masculīnus
Romanian[edit] Pronunciation[edit] Adjective[edit] masculine - feminine pluralnominative form of masculin
- feminine pluralaccusative form of masculin
- neuter pluralnominative form of masculin
- neuter pluralaccusative form of masculin
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