sexus

See also: Sexus

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛksus]
• Hyphenation: se‧xus

Noun

sexus m inan

1. Alternative form of sex (rare)

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *seksus, from Proto-Indo-European *séksus, from *sek- (“to cut”), thus meaning “section, division” (into male and female).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.sus/, [ˈs̠ɛks̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsek.sus/, [ˈsɛksus]

Noun

sexus m (genitive sexūs); fourth declension

1. division
2. sex; gender

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sexus	sexūs
Genitive	sexūs	sexuum
Dative	sexuī	sexibus
Accusative	sexum	sexūs
Ablative	sexū	sexibus
Vocative	sexus	sexūs

Synonyms

• (sex): secus (indecl.)

Descendants

• → Asturian: sexu
• → Catalan: sexe
• → Czech: sexus, sex
• → English: sex (see there for further descendants)
• → French: sexe
• → German: Sexus
• → Italian: sesso
  • → Maltese: sess
• → Ligurian: sèsso
• → Piedmontese: sess
• → Portuguese: sexo
• → Romanian: sex
• →? Sardinian: sessu (“female genitalia”) (poss. from sessus)
• →? Sicilian: sessu (“female genitalia”) (poss. from sessus)
• → Spanish: sexo

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sexus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume
  , page 560

Further reading

• “sexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sexus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris