common gender

English

Etymology

common +‎ gender

Noun

common gender (countable and uncountable, plural common genders)

1. (linguistics) A grammatical gender in some languages, formed by the historical merging of masculine and feminine genders.
   • 2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, page 16:

     There are two genders: common gender (genus commune, abbreviated: com.) and neuter (genus neutrum, abbreviated: neut.). The common gender combines the masculine and feminine of other Indo-European languages into one.

2. (grammar) In some languages (e.g. Latin, Lithuanian), a gender applied to a noun that can be either masculine or feminine.

Coordinate terms

• masculine
• feminine
• neuter

Translations

a grammatical gender

• Belarusian: агу́льны род m (ahúlʹny rod)
• Burmese: အနပုလ္လိင် (my) (a.na.pulling), ဒွိလိင် (my) (dwi.ling)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通性 (zh) (tōngxìng)

• Danish: fælleskøn (da) n
• Dutch: zijdig n, de-geslacht n
• Faroese: samkyn n
• Finnish: yhteinen suku, yleinen suku; en-suku (Scandinavian languages)
• French: genre commun m
• German: Genus commune n, Utrum (de) n
• Greek: κοινό γένος n (koinó génos)
• Greenlandic: fælleskønni
• Hungarian: közös nem (hu)
• Icelandic: samkyn (is) n
• Latin: genus commune n
• Lithuanian: bendroji giminė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: felleskjønn (no) n

  Nynorsk: felleskjønn n

• Polish: rodzaj wspólny m
• Russian: о́бщий род (ru) m (óbščij rod)
• Spanish: género común m
• Swedish: utrum (sv) n, n-genus (sv) n
• Ukrainian: спі́льний рід m (spílʹnyj rid)
• Zazaki: nerimaki

gender applied to a noun that is either masculine or feminine in grammatically gendered languages

• Latin: genus commune n
• Lithuanian: bendroji giminė f