masculin
English
Adjective
masculin (not comparable)
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French masculin, borrowed from Latin māsculīnus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mas.ky.lɛ̃/
Audio (Paris): (file) - Hyphenation: mas‧cu‧lin
- Rhymes: -ɛ̃
Adjective
masculin (feminine masculine, masculine plural masculins, feminine plural masculines)
Noun
masculin m (plural masculins)
Synonyms
Related terms
Further reading
- “masculin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Interlingua
Adjective
masculin (comparative plus masculin, superlative le plus masculin)
Antonyms
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin masculinus.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
masculin m (feminine singular masculina, masculine plural masculins, feminine plural masculinas)
Related terms
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 631.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin masculinus.
Adjective
masculin m (oblique and nominative feminine singular masculine)
Noun
masculin oblique singular, m (oblique plural masculins, nominative singular masculins, nominative plural masculin)
- (grammar) masculine
- E. Stengel (editor), Die ältesten Anleitungsschriften zur Erlernung der französischen Sprache, in: Zeitschrift für neufranzösische Sprache und Litteratur, vol. I, 1879, p. 29:
- Mais cy endroit il fault scavoir que chescun adjectif de femenyn genre doit finir (ou) en un e, et (c'est) quant son masculin fine en e, [...]
- E. Stengel (editor), Die ältesten Anleitungsschriften zur Erlernung der französischen Sprache, in: Zeitschrift für neufranzösische Sprache und Litteratur, vol. I, 1879, p. 29:
References
- masculin on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin masculinus, French masculin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmas.kuˈlin/
Audio: (file)
Adjective
masculin m or n (feminine singular masculină, masculine plural masculini, feminine and neuter plural masculine)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | masculin | masculină | masculini | masculine | |||
| definite | masculinul | masculina | masculinii | masculinele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | masculin | masculine | masculini | masculine | |||
| definite | masculinului | masculinei | masculinilor | masculinelor | ||||