androgyne

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English

Etymology

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/
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Noun

androgyne (plural androgynes)

  1. A person who is androgynous.
    • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five:
      Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33:
      The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.
  2. An androgynous plant.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

androgyne (plural androgynes)

  1. androgynous

Noun

androgyne m or f by sense (plural androgynes)

  1. androgyne, androgynous person
  2. androgyne, androgynous plant

Related terms

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

androgyne

  1. inflection of androgyn:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Noun

androgyne

  1. vocative singular of androgynus

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