Neuter gender

Neuter (, calque from Ancient Greek  [udéteron], neither one nor the other) is a grammatical gender, a linguistic class of nouns triggering specific types of inflections in associated words.

The neuter exists in most Indo-European languages, together with masculine and feminine. It was perhaps originally used for objects. The distinction between masculinum, femininum and neuter was already clear to Latin grammarians, who got it from the Alexandrian grammarians of Greek.

The neuter still exists in Germanic languages, Slavic languages, and Greek. In the Romance languages, it has almost disappeared exept in Romanian. 

It is a neuter pronoun in English.

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