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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
sexus m inan
- (rare) Alternative form of sex
Declension
Declension of sexus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
Further reading
- sexus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- sexus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- sexus in Internetová jazyková příručka
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *seksus, from Proto-Indo-European *séksus, from *sek- (“to cut”), thus meaning “section, division” (into male and female).
Pronunciation
Noun
sexus m (genitive sexūs); fourth declension
- division
- sex; gender
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris