genro
See also: ĝenro
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genro (plural genros or genro)
- (historical) A body of elder statesmen of Japan, formerly used as informal advisors to the Emperor.
- 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, Picador, published 2007, page 814:
- That last part was in line with the genro Prince Saionji's advice to the Emperor: advice which the Emperor ignored.
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Ultimately from Latin genus, possibly through French genre. The feminist and LGBT sense is a semantic loan from English gender. Doublet of ĝenro.
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genro (accusative singular genron, plural genroj, accusative plural genrojn)
- (grammar) gender
- 1950, Ivo Lapenna, Retoriko, 3rd edition, Amsterdam, published 1971:
- Protagoro, unu el la grandaj filozofoj kaj lingvistoj de antikva Grekio, provis starigi kelkajn regulojn pri la genroj en la greka lingvo.
- Protagoras, one of the greast philosophers and linguists of ancient Greece, tried to set up some rules on the genders in the Greek language.
- genus
- (feminism, LGBT, neologism, proscribed) gender
- 2014 October, Max Elbo, Beletra Almanako, volume 21, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 83:
- Kiam ies sekso kaj genro estas kongruaj, temas pri cisgenreco, dum kiam ili estas malsamaj, ni parolas pri transgenreco.
- When someone's sex and gender are compatible, we talk about cisgenderness, and when they are different, we talk about transgenderness.
- 2017, Euleax E. G. de Lima Pereira, “Genro kaj cisgenra normigo [Gender and cisgender normalization]”, in Kontakto [Contact], number 2, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, →ISSN, page 9:
- Cetere, genro ne estas duuma.
- Moreover, gender is not binary.
- 2018, Alice Andrès, “Pluramemo - Novaj difinoj en amo-rilatoj [Polyamory - New definitions in love relationships]”, in Kontakto [Contact], number 1, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, →ISSN, page 10:
- Kiam estas permesite havi plian rilaton, iu ne timas alproksimiĝi al homo de la alia genro.
- When it is allowed to have an additional relationship, someone is not afraid to approach a human of the other gender.
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genro (plural genri)
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- transgenra (“transgender”, adjective)
- transgenro (“transgender”, noun)
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- genero (“genus”)
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From Old Galician-Portuguese genrro, *gẽero (“son-in-law”), from Latin generum (“son-in-law”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵm̥ros, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵem-. Cognate with Galician xenro, Spanish yerno, Catalan, Occitan, and French gendre.
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- Hyphenation: gen‧ro
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genro m (plural genros, feminine nora, feminine plural noras)