feminine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-der.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂
Proto-Italic *θēmanā
Proto-Italic *fēmanā
Latin fēmina
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Latin fēminīnusder.
Old French femininbor.
Middle English femynyne
English feminine
From Middle English feminine, femynyne, femynyn, from Old French feminin, feminine, from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-eh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”). Related to fetus, feminism, filial, fellatio.
Inflected forms:
form: more feminine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feminine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: f.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: f
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: fœminine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
obsolete
form: feminines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: f.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: f
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: fœminine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the female gender.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
pos: adj
gloss: Belonging to females; typically used by females.
pos: adj
examples: Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
gloss: Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive, sensual; womanly.
pos: adj
examples: Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine.
Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
Ninias being esteemed no man of warre at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy.
gloss: Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
pos: adj
examples: Women's names were formed in the same way as men's, but with feminine terminations […]
gloss: Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
pos: adj
gloss: Following or ending on an unstressed syllable.
pos: adj
examples: Feminine caesura, feminine catalexis, feminine ending, feminine rhyme.
gloss: That which is feminine.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
possibly
rare
examples: They guide the feminines toward the Pallace.
gloss: The feminine gender.
pos: noun
gloss: A word of the feminine gender.
pos: noun
examples: These changes being understood, it is easy to see how inaccurate it is to talk of she being the feminine, and they being the plural, of he. The different words belong to dif­fer­ent systems, and are no more the masculines and feminines of one another, than (to use a well-known illustration) puss is the vocative case of cat.
Synonyms: caring
ladylike
nurturing
beauty
fem
feminine
femme
girlish
girly
ladyish
maidenly
matronly
womanish
Of a man
camp
effeminate
epicene
fruity
soft
swish
unmanly
unmasculine
Antonyms: male
manly
butch
masculine
neuter
androgynous
Related words: she-
female
Derived words: antifeminine
cisfeminine
feminine caesura
feminine ending
feminine hygiene
femininely
feminineness
feminine of center
feminine product
feminine rhyme
femininism
femininity
femininization
femininize
feminize
feminoid
hyperfeminine
infeminine
masculofeminine
nonfeminine
overfeminine
pseudofeminine
superfeminine
suprafeminine
transfeminine
ultrafeminine
unfeminine
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: femëror
lang: Southern Altai
word: тижи
roman: tiži
lang: Arabic
word: مُؤَنَّث
roman: muʔannaṯ
lang: Armenian
word: իգական
roman: igakan
lang: Belarusian
word: жано́чы
roman: žanóčy
lang: Breton
word: benel
lang: Bulgarian
word: же́нски
roman: žénski
lang: Cebuano
word: pangbabaye
lang: Chechen
word: зударийн род
roman: zudariı̇n rod
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 陰性的 /阴性的
lang: Cornish
word: benow
lang: Czech
word: ženský
lang: Danish
word: hunkøns-
lang: Dutch
word: vrouwelijk
lang: Finnish
word: feminiininen
lang: French
word: féminin
lang: Galician
word: feminino
lang: Georgian
word: მდედრობითი სქესი
roman: mdedrobiti skesi
lang: Georgian
word: მდედრობითი
roman: mdedrobiti
lang: German
word: feminin
lang: German
word: weiblich
lang: Greek
word: θηλυκός
roman: thilykós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θηλυκός
roman: thēlukós
lang: Hebrew
word: נקבה
roman: nekeva
lang: Hindi
word: स्त्रीलिंग
roman: strīliṅg
lang: Hungarian
word: nőnemű
lang: Icelandic
word: kvenkyns-
lang: Indonesian
word: feminin
lang: Irish
word: baininscneach
lang: Italian
word: femminile
lang: Japanese
word: 女性
roman: josei
lang: Khmer
word: ភេទស្រី
roman: pheitsrəy
lang: Korean
word: 여성
roman: yeoseong
lang: Korean
word: 녀성
roman: nyeoseong
lang: Latin
word: fēminīnus
lang: Latvian
word: sieviešu
lang: Latvian
word: sieviešu dzimtes
lang: Lithuanian
word: moteriškos giminės
lang: Lithuanian
word: moteriškas
lang: Macedonian
word: женски
roman: ženski
lang: Maltese
word: femminili
lang: Manx
word: bwoirrin
lang: Marathi
word: स्त्रीलिंगी
roman: strīliṅgī
lang: Neapolitan
word: femminile
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: feminin
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hunkjønn
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: feminin
lang: Occitan
word: femenin
lang: Pashto
word: ښځينه
roman: ẍëźina
lang: Polish
word: żeński
lang: Portuguese
word: feminino
lang: Punjabi
word: زَنانہ
roman: zanānh
lang: Punjabi
word: ਇਸਤਰੀਲਿੰਗ
roman: isatrīliṅg
lang: Russian
word: же́нский
roman: žénskij
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: boireann
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: жѐнскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: žènskī
lang: Slovak
word: ženský
lang: Slovene
word: ženski
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: žónski ród
lang: Spanish
word: femenino
lang: Swedish
word: feminin
lang: Telugu
word: స్త్రీలింగము
roman: strīliṅgamu
lang: Turkish
word: dişil
lang: Ukrainian
word: жіно́чий
roman: žinóčyj
lang: Urdu
word: مُؤَنَّث
roman: muannas
lang: Vietnamese
word: giống cái
lang: Volapük
word: vomik
lang: Welsh
word: benywaidd
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿעמינין
roman: feminin
lang: Zazaki
word: mayki (diq)
lang: Zazaki
word: mari