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sexus

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛksus]
  • Hyphenation: se‧xus

Noun

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sexus m inan

  1. (rare) Alternative form of sex

Declension

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Further reading

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  • sexus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • sexus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • sexus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Latin

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *seksus, from Proto-Indo-European *séksus, from *sek- (to cut), thus meaning "section, division (into male and female)".

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    sexus m (genitive sexūs); fourth declension

    1. division
    2. sex; gender

    Declension

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    Fourth-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative sexus sexūs
    genitive sexūs sexuum
    dative sexuī sexibus
    accusative sexum sexūs
    ablative sexū sexibus
    sexubus
    vocative sexus sexūs

    Synonyms

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    Descendants

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    • Asturian: sexu
    • Catalan: sexe
    • Czech: sexus, sex
    • Old French: sexe
    • German: Sexus
    • Italian: sesso
    • Ligurian: sèsso
    • Piedmontese: sess
    • Portuguese: sexo
    • Romanian: sex
    • ? Sardinian: sessu (female genitalia) (poss. from sessus)
    • ? Sicilian: sessu (female genitalia) (poss. from sessus)
    • Spanish: sexo

    References

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    Further reading

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    • sexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • sexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "sexus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • sexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris