common gender

common gender

English

Noun

common gender (plural common genders)

1. (grammar) A grammatical gender in some languages, formed by the historical merging of masculine and feminine genders.
   • 2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, p. 16:

     There are two genders: common gender (genus commune, abbreviated: com.) and neuter (genus neutrum, abbreviated: neut.). The common gender combines the masculine and feminine of other Indo-European languages into one.

2. (grammar) In some languages (e.g. Latin, Lithuanian), a gender applied to a noun that can be either masculine or feminine.

Coordinate terms

• masculine
• feminine
• neuter

Translations

a grammatical gender

Chinese: Mandarin: 通性 (zh) (tōngxìng) Danish: fælleskøn (da) n Faroese: samkyn n Finnish: yhteinen suku, yleinen suku; en-suku (Scandinavian languages) French: genre commun m German: Genus commune n, Utrum (de) n Greenlandic: fælleskønni Hungarian: közös nem (hu) Icelandic: samkyn (is) n

Latin: genus commune n Lithuanian: bendroji giminė f Norwegian: Bokmål: felleskjønn (no) n Nynorsk: felleskjønn n Polish: rodzaj wspólny m Spanish: género común m Swedish: utrum (sv) n, n-genus (sv) n Zazaki: nerimaki

gender applied to a noun that is either masculine or feminine in grammatically gendered languages

Latin: genus commune n

Lithuanian: bendroji giminė f