androgyne

androgyne

English

Etymology

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/

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Noun

androgyne (plural androgynes)

1. A person who is androgynous. [from mid-16th c.]
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

     Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33:

     The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.

2. An androgynous plant.

Translations

a person who is androgynous

Aramaic: אנדרוגינוס‎ m Catalan: androgin (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 中性人 (zhōngxìngrén) Coptic: ϩⲟⲩⲧ ⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ m (hout shime) Danish: androgyn (da) Esperanto: androgino Estonian: androgüün Finnish: androgyyni (fi) French: androgyne (fr) m or f Greek: ανδρόγυνος (el) m (andrógynos) Hebrew: אַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס‎ (he) (androgínos) Italian: androgino (it) Polish: androgyne (pl) m or f Portuguese: andrógino (pt) Romanian: androgin (ro) m Russian: андроги́н (ru) m (androgín), гермафроди́т (ru) m (germafrodít) Spanish: andrógino (es) m

androgynous plant

French: androgyne (fr) m or f Romanian: androgin (ro) m Russian: андроги́н (ru) m (androgín), обоепо́лое расте́ние n (obojepóloje rasténije)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.dʁɔ.ʒin/

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Adjective

androgyne (plural androgynes)

1. androgynous

Noun

androgyne m or f by sense (plural androgynes)

1. androgyne, androgynous person
2. androgyne, androgynous plant

Related terms

• androgynéité
• androgynie
• androgynique

Further reading

• “androgyne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

androgyne

1. inflection of androgyn:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Latin

Noun

androgyne

1. vocative singular of androgynus

References

• “androgyne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press