Epicönum — meaning in English
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English meaning
- epicene adj Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).
Senses
Epicönum is used for these senses in English:
- epicene (linguistics) An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.
epicene — full definition
- adj Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).
- adj Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.
- adj Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.
- adj Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.