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Gender comes from french genre, latin genus, same origin as generic and and means class/kind/sort it just shifted in meaning and now doesn't fit that well anymo
by b3orn 3y ago
Gender comes from french genre, latin genus, same origin as generic and and means class/kind/sort it just shifted in meaning and now doesn't fit that well anymore.
- adrian_b 3y agoGreek genos, Latin genus and English kind are cognate words, deriving from the same Indo-European root.