androgyne
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
androgyne (plural androgynes)
- A person who is androgynous. [from mid-16th c.]
- 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five:
- Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33:
- The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.
- An androgynous plant.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a person who is androgynous
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androgynous plant
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
androgyne (plural androgynes)
Noun[edit]
androgyne m or f by sense (plural androgynes)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “androgyne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Adjective[edit]
androgyne
- inflection of androgyn:
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
androgyne
References[edit]
- “androgyne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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