She is the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes on, and her dancing has a feminine suavity, lightness, sparkle, and refinement which are simply incomparable.

Although " android " is used almost universally to refer to both sexes, and those of no particular sex, " android " technically refers to the male form, while " gynoid " is the feminine form.

An abbess ( Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot ) is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey.

The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek feminine noun a-re-ka-sa-da-ra ( transliterated as Alexandra ), written in Linear B syllabic script.

* in exclamations, such as me miseram, " wretched me " ( spoken by Circe to Ulysses in Ovid's Remedium Amoris ; note that this is feminine: the masculine form would be me miser < ins > um </ ins >).

Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander, which is a romanization of the Greek name Αλέξανδρος ( Alexandros ).

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

" A woman cannot be herself in modern society ," he argues, since it is " an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

The banshee ( ), from the Irish bean sí (" woman of the sídhe " or " woman of the fairy mounds ") is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.

The feminine bachelorette is from 1935, replacing earlier bachelor-girl.

A drag queen is usually a male-bodied person who performs as an exaggeratedly feminine character, in heightened costuming sometimes consisting of a showy dress, high-heeled shoes, obvious makeup, and wig.

The feminine form is Clodia.

It is sometimes called the feminine order because it is on the top level of the Colosseum and holding up the least weight, and also has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height.

Today there is a branch of Wicca named for her, which is characterized by an exclusive focus on the feminine aspect of the Divine.

Hexameters also have a primary caesura — a break in sense, much like the function of a comma in prose — at one of several normal positions: After the first syllable in the third foot ( the " masculine " caesura ); after the second syllable in the third foot if the third foot is a dactyl ( the " feminine " caesura ); after the first syllable of the fourth foot ; or after the first syllable of the second foot ( the latter two often occur together in a line, breaking it into three separate units ).

The caesura is also handled far more strictly, with Homer's feminine caesura becoming exceedingly rare, and the second-foot caesura always paired with one in the fourth.

Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Spanish, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars ; they are treating it ( like the adjacent constellation Argo Navis ) as if it were a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in-ō ( like Io or Callisto or Argo ), names that have a genitive ending in-ūs.

Though widely used, it differs in form from the nominative only in the masculine singular of the second declension ( that is, never in the plural, never in the feminine or neuter, and never in any declension other than the second ).

Dominatrix is the feminine form of the Latin dominator, a ruler or lord, and was originally used in a non-sexual sense.

" Doktór " is the masculine form, which retains the abbreviation Dr .; the feminine form is " Doktóra ", and is abbreviated usually as " Dra.

; literally " the red one ", feminine ; in colloquial Arabic: ), the complete form of which was Calat Alhambra (, trans.

In the culture of South Asia, hijras (,,,, ) or chhakka in Kannada, khusra in Punjabi and kojja in Telugu are physiological males who have feminine gender identity, women's clothing and other feminine gender roles.

Gayatri (, ) is the feminine form of, a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn.

The Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (, French ( masculine ): Lieutenant-gouverneur du Québec, or ( feminine ): Lieutenant-gouverneure du Québec ) is the viceregal representative in Quebec of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, as well as the other Commonwealth realms and any subdivisions thereof, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom.

The feminine form of the word is () or Yakshini (, ).

Byala (, " white " + feminine declination ) might refer to:

For example, in New Testament Greek, parthenos (, " virgin ") is a feminine noun, but masculine in form.

# " goatskin coat ", from treating the word as meaning " something grammatically feminine pertaining to goat " ( Greek αἰξ ( stem αἰγ -)

: the intelligible and the sensible, the spontaneous and the receptive, autonomy and heteronomy, the empirical and the transcendental, immanent and transcendent, as the interior and exterior, or the founded and the founder, normal and abnormal, phonetic and writing, analasis and synthesis, the literal sense and figurative meaning in language, reason and madness in psychoanalysis, the masculine and feminine in gender theory, man and animal in ecology, the beast and the sovereign in the political field, theory and practice as distinct dominions of thought itself.

The Hebrew קהלת is a feminine participle related to the root קהל meaning " to gather.

In a note, he records other scholars ' arguments " for the meaning Mistress as a feminine to Heros, Master.

Beruryah ( her name is a standard Jewish female name meaning ' the clarity of God ') is a Tannah mentioned by name in the Talmud, who has a female name, has orally been transmitted as a female, and is referred to in the text using the nekava ( feminine Hebrew and Aramaic ) adjectives and adverbs.

The word sect comes from the Latin noun secta ( a feminine form of a variant past participle of the verb sequi, to follow ), meaning "( beaten ) path ", and figuratively a ( prescribed ) way, mode, or manner, and hence metonymously, a discipline or school of thought as defined by a set of methods and doctrines.

The name " Agnes " is actually derived from the feminine Greek adjective " hagnē " ( ἁγνή ) meaning " chaste, pure, sacred ".

is the devi feminine of an adjective ( which occurs in the Rigveda as the name of the keeper of the celestial waters ), derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian * ( and earlier, PIE ), meaning ‘ marshy, full of pools ’.

Because of his mother's superstitious nature, she originally named him Sai-fon ( 細鳳 ), which is a feminine name meaning " small phoenix ".

* Ece is also a Turkish feminine name meaning " Queen "

Although the dance didn't originate in Poland, the Oxford Etymological Dictionary claims its name is derived from the Czech polka meaning " Polish woman " ( feminine form corresponding to polák, a Pole ).

A small number of nouns can be used either in masculine or feminine gender with the same meaning ( e. g. après-midi " afternoon ").

showing how they were dramatized in speeches during the centuries, each author giving it different centres and establishing different hierarchies between the terms in the opposition: the intelligible and the sensible, the spontaneous and the receptive, autonomy and heteronomy, the empirical and the transcendental, immanent and transcendent, as the interior and exterior, or the founded and the founder, normal and abnormal, phonetic and writing, the literal sense and figurative meaning in language, reason and madness in psychoanalysis, the masculine and feminine in gender theory, man and animal in ecology, the beast and the sovereign in the political field, theory and practice as distinct dominions of thought itself.

But the word kedeshah literally means " consecrated ( feminine form )", from the Semitic root q-d-sh ( קדש )‎ meaning " holy " or " set apart ".

Proto-Celtic is reconstructed as having * werbā-' blister ' in its lexicon and the name may be a suffixed form of this lexeme meaning “ blistered one .” On the other hand, the root of the name may represent a Celtic reflex of the Proto-Indo-European root * wer-bhe-‘ bend, turn ,’ cognate with Modern English warp, followed by the durative suffix *- j-and the feminine suffix *- ā-and so might have meant “ she who is constantly bending and turning .” Another possibility is that the name is a compound of Romano-British reflexes of the Proto-Celtic elements ** Uφer-bej-ā-( upper-strike-F ) “ the upper striker .”

Her name, meaning " the female hidden one ", was simply the feminine form of Amun's own name.

Sopdu's name, meaning with Sopd, derives from this heat arriving shortly after the star Sirius has its heliacal rising, and thus being seen as coming with Sopdet, Sopdet being the deification of Sirius ( Sopd is the masculine form of Sopdet, t being the feminine determinant ).

Sri has the root meaning of radiance, or diffusing light, much like the English word " illuminate ".< ref > In Sanskrit grammar, Sri has the feminine gender.

Wyrd is a feminine noun, and its Norse cognate urðr, besides meaning " fate ", is the name of one of the Norns ; urðr is literally " that which has come to pass ", verðandi is " what is in the process of happening " ( the present participle of the verb cognate to weorþan ) and skuld " debt, guilt " ( from a Germanic root * skul-" to owe ", also found in English shall ).

Renard connects the epithet's meaning to the cu ( i ) ris, the spear of Juno Curitis as here she is given the epithet of Sororia, corresponding to the usual epithet Geminus of Janus and to the twin or feminine nature of the passage between two coupled posts.

Marc gave an emotional meaning or purpose to the colors he used in his work: blue was used for masculinity and spirituality, yellow represented feminine joy, and red encased the sound of violence.

Stamens typically consist of a stalk called the filament ( from Latin filum, meaning " thread "), and an anther ( from Ancient Greek anthera, feminine of antheros " flowery ," from anthos " flower "), which contains microsporangia.