sexus
Appearance
See also: Sexus
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sexus m inan
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *seksus, from Proto-Indo-European *séksus, from *sek- (“to cut”), thus meaning "section, division (into male and female)".
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsek.sus/, [ˈs̠ɛks̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsek.sus/, [ˈsɛksus]
Noun
[edit]sexus m (genitive sexūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]- (sex): secus (indecl.)
Descendants
[edit]- → Asturian: sexu
- → Catalan: sexe
- → Czech: sexus, sex
- → Old French: sexe
- → German: Sexus
- → Italian: sesso
- → Maltese: sess
- → 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
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sexus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 560
Further reading
[edit]- “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
- the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris
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