cishetero

English

Etymology

From cis- +‎ hetero.

Adjective

cishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)

1. (informal) Cisgender and heterosexual.
   • 2019, “Alyia”, in Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney, editors, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum‎^[1], page 119:

     There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.

   • 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma‎^[2], page 112:

     This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.

   • 2021, Emily Anne Parker, Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body‎^[3], page 64:

     […] while men can and should worship the cishetero fantasy of Playboy in which what it means to be a Man is to be effortlessly orgasmic and heterosexually dominating.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cishetero.

Synonyms

• cishet (informal)
• cisheterosexual

Translations

Translations

• French: cis-hétéro (fr)
• Polish: cishetero
• Spanish: cishetero

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin cisder.

Spanish cis-

Spanish hetero-

Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.

Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder.

Proto-Italic *seksus

Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.

Proto-Italic *sekaō

Latin secō

Latin secāre?

Latin sexus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Late Latin sexuālisbor.

Spanish sexual

Spanish heterosexualclip.

Spanish hetero

Spanish cishetero

From cis- + hetero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌθiseˈteɾo/ [ˌθis.eˈt̪e.ɾo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˌsiseˈteɾo/ [ˌsis.eˈt̪e.ɾo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: cis‧he‧te‧ro

Adjective

cishetero (invariable)

1. (informal) cishetero

   Synonym: cisheterosexual