sexus

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See also: Sexus

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈsɛksus]
Hyphenation: se‧xus

Noun[edit]

sexus m inan

(rare) Alternative form of sex

Declension[edit]

Declension of sexus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	sexus	sexy
genitive	sexu	sexů
dative	sexu	sexům
accusative	sexus	sexy
vocative	sexe	sexy
locative	sexu	sexech
instrumental	sexem	sexy

Further reading[edit]

sexus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
sexus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
sexus in Internetová jazyková příručka

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

division
sex; gender

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
- French: sexe
  - → Bulgarian: секс (seks)
  - → Turkish: seks
- → Middle English: sexe
  - English: sex, sexe; s'x, s*x
    - → Dutch: seks
    - → German: Sex
    - → Hindi: सेक्स (seks)
→ 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

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