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EtymologyEdit
From the English preposition cis (“on this side of”). The earliest known gender-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]
PrefixEdit
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- (geography) On this side of.
- Antonym: trans-
- Sandbox + alpine → cisalpine (“on this [the Roman] side of the Alps”)
- Sandbox + Rhenane → cisrhenane (“on this [the speaker's] side of Rhine”)
- Sandbox + Caucasia → Ciscaucasia
- Sandbox + Jordan → Cisjordan
- Sandbox + Neptunian → cis-Neptunian
- (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.
- Sandbox + diazene → cis-diazene
- (gender) Cis; cisgender or cissexual.
- (gender) Of, related to, or specific to cis persons.
- Sandbox + gender → cisgender
- Sandbox + sexism → cissexism
- Sandbox + normativity → cisnormativity
Usage notesEdit
- 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 senses, 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. In particular, it is now sometimes considered offensive to write cisman or cis-man, the preferred spelling being cis man (cis man). Compare trans- and trans.
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Ernst Burchard (1914) Lexikon des gesamten Sexuallebens (in German)
- ^ New words notes December 2015 – Oxford English Dictionary
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