sexus
See also: Sexus
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sexus m inan
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *seksus, from Proto-Indo-European *séksus, from *sek- (“to cut”), thus meaning “section, division” (into male and female).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsek.sus/, [ˈs̠ɛks̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsek.sus/, [ˈsɛksus]
Noun edit
sexus m (genitive sexūs); fourth declension
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sexus | sexūs |
Genitive | sexūs | sexuum |
Dative | sexuī | sexibus |
Accusative | sexum | sexūs |
Ablative | sexū | sexibus |
Vocative | sexus | sexūs |
Synonyms edit
- (sex): secus (indecl.)
Descendants edit
- → Asturian: sexu
- → Catalan: sexe
- → Czech: sexus, sex
- → Old French: sexe
- → German: Sexus
- → Italian: sesso
- → Maltese: sess
- → Ligurian: sèsso
- → Piedmontese: sess
- → Portuguese: sexo
- → Romanian: sex
- →? Sardinian: sessu (“female genitalia”) (poss. from sessus)
- →? Sicilian: sessu (“female genitalia”) (poss. from sessus)
- → Spanish: sexo
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sexus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 560
Further reading edit
- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris
- the male, female sex: sexus (not genus) virilis, muliebris