masculine

• adj.男性; 男性的な; 男らしい
• n. 男性; 男性的な、男性的な言葉

ラテン語のmasculus、男らしい、男らしい美徳に恵まれた、marryと語源的に同じmas、man、男らしい、-cul、小さな語の接尾辞から。文字通り、小さな男、男らしい。maleはこの単語の頭字語である。

masculine

masculine: see male

masculine (adj.)

mid-14c., "belonging to the male grammatical gender;" late 14c., "of men, male," from Old French masculin "of the male sex" (12c.), from Latin masculinus "male, of masculine gender," from masculus "male, masculine; worthy of a man," diminutive of mas (genitive maris) "male person, male," of unknown origin. Meaning "having the appropriate qualities of the male sex, manly, virile, powerful" is first attested 1620s. As a noun from mid-15c.

1. In most languages adjectives have slightly different spellings for masculine and feminine.

多くの言語では、形容詞の陽性と陰性の綴りはわずかに異なる。

2.Andrew describes her as a large，bony and masculine woman.

アンドリューは、彼女は痩せた骨と男のような大柄な女だと言った。

3.He was handsome and strong，and very masculine .

彼はハンサムで強く、男らしい。