androgyne

English

Etymology

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/

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Noun

androgyne (plural androgynes)

1. 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.

   • 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 June 2019:

     There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.

2. An androgynous plant.

Derived terms

• androgynism
• androgynist
• androgynize, androgynise

Translations

a person who is androgynous

• Aramaic: אנדרוגינוס m
• Catalan: androgin (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中性人 (zhōngxìngrén), 雙性人 / 双性人 (zh) (shuāngxìngrén)

• Coptic: ϩⲟⲩⲧ ⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ m (hout shime)
• Danish: androgyn (da) c
• Esperanto: androgino
• Estonian: androgüün
• Finnish: androgyyni (fi)
• French: androgyne (fr) m or f
• Galician: andróxino m
• Greek: ανδρόγυνος (el) m (andrógynos)
• Hebrew: אַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס (he) (androgínos)
• Italian: androgino (it)
• Polish: androgyne (pl) m or f
• Portuguese: andrógino (pt)
• Romanian: androgin (ro) m
• Russian: андроги́н (ru) m (androgín), гермафроди́т (ru) m (germafrodít)
• Spanish: andrógino (es) m

androgynous plant

• French: androgyne (fr) m or f
• Romanian: androgin (ro) m
• Russian: андроги́н (ru) m (androgín), обоепо́лое расте́ние n (obojepóloje rasténije)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.dʁɔ.ʒin/

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Adjective

androgyne (plural androgynes)

1. androgynous

Noun

androgyne m or f by sense (plural androgynes)

1. androgyne, androgynous person
2. androgyne, androgynous plant

Related terms

• androgynéité
• androgynie
• androgynique

Further reading

• “androgyne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

androgyne

1. inflection of androgyn:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Noun

androgyne

1. vocative singular of androgynus

References

• “androgyne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press