sexe

See also: sexé

English

Noun

sexe (countable and uncountable, plural sexes)

1. Archaic form of sex.

See also

• cache-sexe

Anagrams

• exes

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛk.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɛk.se]

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Noun

sexe m (plural sexes)

1. gender
2. sex

Derived terms

• sexe anal

Related terms

• sexar
• sexatge
• sexisme
• sexista
• sexofília
• sexofòbia
• sexòleg
• sexologia
• sexològic
• sexual
• sexualitat
• sexuat

French

Etymology

Middle French sexe, from Latin sexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛks/

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• Rhymes: -ɛks
• Homophone: Seix

Noun

sexe m (plural sexes)

1. sex (the biological category)
2. (collective) sex (men or women)
3. (collective, archaic, with article) the (weaker) sex; womankind

   une personne du sexe ― a female person; a woman or girl

   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     C'est pour vous stupéfier l'entendement et provoquer des extases, chose d'ailleurs facile à obtenir chez les personnes du sexe, qui sont plus délicates que les autres.

     It is to stupefy the senses and to bring on ecstasies—a thing, moreover, very easy in persons of the weaker sex, who are more delicate than the other.

4. sex (the act)
5. sex organ

Derived terms

• beau sexe
• bête de sexe
• discuter du sexe des anges
• grève du sexe
• pas de latex, pas de sexe
• pas de sexe sans latex
• sexe anal
• sexe faible
• sexe fort
• sexe oral
• travailleur du sexe

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: секс (seks)
• → Turkish: seks

Adjective

sexe (invariable)

1. pornographic
2. horny, sexually aroused
3. sexy

Verb

sexe

1. inflection of sexer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

sexe

1. alternative form of sax

Portuguese

Verb

sexe

1. inflection of sexar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsekse]

Noun

sexe n pl

1. plural of sex

Spanish

Verb

sexe

1. inflection of sexar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative