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sex

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Meaningsex, a division

Common meaning: being male or female

Journey through time

  1. Latinsexumsource
  2. Frenchsexesource
  3. Englishsex‘being male or female’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin sexum ‘sex, a division’.

Roots

  • sexum Latin “sex, a division”

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