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See also: Appendix:Variations of "cis"
English
Etymology
From the Latin preposition cis (“on this side of”). The earliest known sexuality-related use of the prefix in any language was in a 1914 German-language book on sexology.[1] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪs/
- Rhymes: -ɪs
- Homophones: cis, sis
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Prefix
cis-
- (geography) On this side of.
- Antonym: trans-
- cis- + alpine → cisalpine (“on this side of the Alps”)
- cis- + Rhenane → cisrhenane (“on this side of Rhine”)
- cis- + Caucasia → Ciscaucasia
- cis- + Jordan → Cisjordan
- cis- + Neptunian → cis-Neptunian
- (physical chemistry) Forming names of chemical compounds in which two atoms or groups are situated on the same side of some plane of symmetry passing through the compound.
- cis- + diazene → cis-diazene
- (gender) Not trans.
- (by extension) Being, or pertaining to being, cis.
- cis- + sexism → cissexism
- cis- + normativity → cisnormativity
- (by extension) Being, or pertaining to being, cis.
Usage notes
- In the first sense, “on this side of”, this prefix is usually attached directly to the word it modifies, or sometimes separated from it by a hyphen: cisrhenane, cis-Neptunian.
- In the gender-related sense, this prefix is attached directly to certain words, most notably cisgender and cissexual (which are almost always spelled thus, not as e.g. *cis sexual). In other cases, the related standalone adjective cis is used: hence one speaks of a cis perspective (not *cisperspective), etc. Compare trans- and trans.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- (cisgender, cissexual): cisman, ciswoman, cismale, cisfemale (more commonly spaced as cis man, etc.)
Translations
on this side of
See also
References
- ^ Ernst Burchard (1914) Lexikon des gesamten Sexuallebens (in German)1914, Ernst Burchard, Lexikon Des Gesamten Sexuallebens, Berlin, BV047570799, page 32:
- Cisvestitismus, die Neigung, die Kleidung einer anderen Altersstufe, Volks- oder Berufsklasse des gleichen Geschlechts zum Zwecke sexueller Entspannung anzulegen, dem Transvestitismus verwandt (s. Verkleidungstrieb).
- Cisvestism, the tendency to don the clothes of a different age group, ethnic group, or profession of the same sex for the purpose of sexual relaxation, related to transvestism (see disguise instinct).
- ^ “New words notes December 2015 – Oxford English Dictionary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2017 November 7 (last accessed), archived from the original on 29 November 2017
Further reading
Anagrams
Italian
Prefix
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- cis- (all senses)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
Prefix
cis-
- cis- (all senses)
Antonyms
See also
Further reading
- “cis-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10