sexus

See also: Sexus

Czech

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sexus m inan

(rare) alternative form of sex

Declension

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

“sexus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
“sexus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
“sexus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *seksus, from Proto-Indo-European *séksus, from *sek- (“to cut”), thus meaning "section, division (into male and female)".

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛk.sʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛk.sus]

Noun

sexus m (genitive sexūs); fourth declension

division
sex; gender

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sexus	sexūs
genitive	sexūs	sexuum
dative	sexuī	sexibus
accusative	sexum	sexūs
ablative	sexū	sexibus sexubus
vocative	sexus	sexūs

Synonyms

(sex): secus (indecl.)

Descendants

→ Asturian: sexu
→ Catalan: sexe
→ Czech: sexus, sex
→ German: Sexus
→? Italian: sesso
- → Maltese: sess
→? Ligurian: sèsso
→ Old French: sexe
- French: sexe
  - → Bulgarian: секс (seks)
  - → Turkish: seks
- → Middle English: sexe
  - English: sex (see there for further descendants)
→ Piedmontese: sess
→ Portuguese: sexo
→ Romanian: sex
→? Sardinian: sessu (“female genitalia”) (poss. from sessus)
→? Sicilian: sessu (“female genitalia”) (poss. from sessus)
→ Spanish: sexo

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sexus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 11: S–Si, page 560

Further reading

“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