Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - masculine
Masculine
masculine
adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or characteristic of men. 2 manly, vigorous. 3 (of a woman) having qualities considered appropriate to a man. 4 Gram. of or denoting the gender proper to men's names. --n. Gram. the masculine gender; a masculine word. Derivatives masculinely adv. masculineness n. masculinity n. Etymology: ME f. OF masculin -ine f. L masculinus (as MALE)
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English masculin, from Latin masculinus, from masculus, noun, male, diminutive of mas male Date: 14th century 1. male, having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man, of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to males , 3. having or occurring in a stressed final syllable , having the final chord occurring on a strong beat , ~ly adverb masculinity noun II. noun Date: 14th century the ~ gender, a noun, pronoun, adjective, or inflectional form or class of the ~ gender, a male person ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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