Plus the fact that Siddo not only had the normal ( to Earthmen ) three genders of masculine, feminine, and neuter, but the two extra of inanimate and spiritual.

* 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 >).

" 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.

* Gender binary, the classification of sex and gender into two distinct and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine

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 ).

Others may choose to take a mixed approach, adopting some feminine traits and some masculine traits in their appearance.

Philosophically, it stands the dark, passive, feminine principle ; whereas Yang ( the hillside facing the sun ) stands for the bright, active, masculine principle.

Other things associated with air and blood in ancient and medieval medicine included the season of spring, since it increased the qualities of heat and moisture ; the sanguine temperament ( of a person dominated by the blood humour ); hermaphrodite ( combining the masculine quality of heat with the feminine quality of moisture ); and the northern point of the compass.

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

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 ).

While masculine, feminine, and neuter genders are recognized, nouns do not normally decline for gender, though some nouns, especially Latin words and personal names, exist in multiple forms corresponding to different genders: Alumnus ( male, singular )/ Alumna ( female, singular ); Andrew / Andrea, Paul / Paula, etc.

Suffixes such as-ess ,-ette, and-er can also derive overtly gendered versions of nouns, with marking for feminine being much more common than marking for masculine.

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 ).

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

: 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.

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

Except for one dubious example of a third-person feminine singular verb associated with Qoheleth, the subject always uses masculine nouns and even refers to his wife and women.

Pronouns show distinctions in person ( 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ), number ( singular, dual, and plural in the ancient language ; singular and plural alone in later stages ), and gender ( masculine, feminine, and neuter ), and decline for case ( from six cases in the earliest forms attested to four in the modern language ).

Their ideology based mainly on tantras sees Shakti as the principle of energy through which all divinity functions, thus showing the masculine to be dependent on the feminine.

It is expressed through both philosophical tracts and metaphor that the potentiality of masculine being is given actuation by the feminine divine.

Some lost the neuter, leaving masculine and feminine ; like most Romance languages, Urdu / Hindi, and the Celtic languages.

Others merged feminine and the masculine into a common gender.

For instance, according to Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, the Arabic root ( to sacrifice ) can be derived the forms ( he sacrificed ), ( you ( masculine singular ) sacrificed ), ( he slaughtered ), ( he slaughters ), and ( slaughterhouse ).

The masculine forms for German articles, e. g., ' the ', ' a / an ', ' my ', etc., change in the accusative case: they always end in-en.

Most English personal pronouns have five forms ; in addition to the nominative and oblique case forms, the possessive case has both a determiner form ( such as my, our ) and a distinct independent form ( such as mine, ours ) ( with the exceptions that these are not distinct for the third person singular masculine car, it is his and that the third person singular neuter it does not have the possessive independent form ); and they have a distinct reflexive or intensive form ( such as myself, ourselves ).

There are a few words with both masculine and feminine forms, generally words for relatives ( cousin: lehengusu ( m )/ lehengusina ( f )) or words borrowed from Latin (" king ": errege, from the Latin word regem ; " queen ": erregina, from reginam ).

As in Ido, inflections marking gender are optional, although some gender-specific nouns such as femina, " woman ", happen to end in-a or-o. Interlingua has feminine pronouns, and its general pronoun forms are also used as masculine pronouns.

One of the characters is Colonel Vavara Novikova ( Russian surnames having masculine and feminine forms ), who accompanies the protagonist and antagonist back in time to their birth so that they can be delivered to the orphanage where their story begins.

For example, in French, the singular form of the definite article is le with masculine nouns and la with feminines ; adjectives and certain verb forms also change ( with the addition of-e with feminines ).

Most adjectives ' feminine singular forms are formed from their masculine singular forms by adding-e, though some common endings have different patterns ; adjectives ending in-eux, for example, typically have feminine singular forms ending in-euse.

Similarly, most adjectives ' masculine and feminine plural forms are formed from their corresponding singular forms by adding-s, though sometimes-x is added instead, and nothing is added if the corresponding singular form already ends in-s ,-x, or-z.

With a few adjectives of the latter type, there are two masculine singular forms: one used before consonants ( the default form ), and one used before vowels.

Tetum does not have separate masculine and feminine forms of the third person singular, hence nia ( similar to dia in Indonesian and Malay ) can mean either " he ", " she " or " it ".

* For the plural, ** kubar would be expected, but separate masculine plural akābir أكابر and feminine plural kubrayāt كبريات are found as irregular forms.

Adjectives may agree with the noun they modify ; examples of plural forms are the French petits and petites ( the masculine plural and feminine plural respectively of petit ).

person singular, whose declined forms are also gender-specific: he ( masculine ), she ( feminine ), and it ( neuter, used for objects, abstractions, and most animals ).

In Nynorsk these are important distinctions, in contrast to Bokmål, in which all feminine words may also become masculine ( due to the incomplete transition to a three-gender system ) and inflect using its forms, and indeed a feminine word may be seen in both forms, for example boka or boken (“ the book ”).

He had an easy masculine grace about him, the kind that kids don't have, but that I had sometimes admired in other older men.

Cross-dressers have complained that society permits women to wear pants or jeans and other masculine clothing, while condemning any man who wants to wear clothing sold for women.

The masculine virility and discipline displayed by the men's rigid and confident stances is also severely contrasted to the slouching, swooning female softness created in the other half of the composition.

" Invert " described the opposite gender roles and the related attraction to women instead of men ; since women in the Victorian period were considered unable to initiate sexual encounters, women who did so with other women were thought of as possessing masculine sexual desires.

The most masculine women were not necessarily common, though they were visible so they tended to attract women interested in finding other lesbians.

Etymologically, negro, noir, nègre, and nigger ultimately derive from nigrum, the stem of the Latin ( black ) ( pronounced which, in every other grammatical case, grammatical gender, and grammatical number besides nominative masculine singular, is nigr -, the r is trilled ).

In some languages, nouns are assigned to genders, such as masculine, feminine and neuter ( or other combinations ).

Boxing heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, who trained Valentino and other Hollywood notables of the era in the art of boxing, said of him " He was the most virile and masculine of men.

Without the gene, the mice exhibited masculine sexual behavior and attraction toward urine of other female mice.

Males who penetrate other males are considered masculine and not gay and are not the targets of prejudice.

On the other hand, Skaði may potentially be a masculine form and, as a result, some scholars have theorized that Skaði may have originally been a male deity.

Several towns in Stanislaus and other counties along the Stanislaus River, including Turlock, Valley Home, and Ripon, were founded and settled by immigrants from Danish, Dutch, German-speaking areas where Stanislaus is a typical surname and masculine given name, and like Estanislao, a variation of Stanley.

Later, as a goddess in other traditions of the Egyptian pantheon, where most goddesses were paired with a male aspect, her masculine counterpart was Thoth and their attributes are the same.

The term drag king is sometimes used in a broader sense, to include female-bodied people who dress in traditionally masculine clothing for other reasons.

On the other hand, science fiction and fantasy can also to give more freedom than do non-genre literatures to imagine alternatives to the default assumptions of heterosexuality and masculine superiority that permeate many cultures.

Janus is often associated with fecundity in myths, representing the masculine principle of motion, while Juno represents the complementary feminine principle of fertility: the action of the first would allow the manifestation of the other.

The feminine forms of other words usually inflected by the gender of the noun they belong to, such as ei (“ a ( n )”), inga (“ no ”, “ none ”) and lita (“ small ”), are optional too ( masculine is used when feminine is not ).

Ian Buruma noted that although Western comics for girls also included " impossibly beautiful men " who are clearly masculine and always get the girl in the end, the bishonen are " more ambivalent " and sometimes get each other.

Portraying Western culture as a struggle between masculine, phallic, sky-religion on the one hand, and feminine, chthonic, earth-religion on the other, Paglia seeks to show that Christianity did not destroy paganism, but rather drove it into the underground of Western culture, to later emerge in Renaissance art, Romanticism, and contemporary popular culture, especially Hollywood.

In literature, the use of masculine language to refer to both men and women may indicate a male or androcentic bias in society where men are seen as the ' norm ' and women as the ' other '.

In other words, a masculine bias remains even when people are exposed to only gender neutral language ( although the bias is lessened ).

For example, in Hebrew, the root gdl represents the idea of largeness, and from it we have gadol and gdola ( masculine and feminine forms of the adjective " big "), gadal " he grew ", higdil " he magnified " and magdelet " magnifier ", along with many other words such as godel " size " and migdal " tower ".

" Highly masculine " subjects were less likely to take action to help the victim than were other subjects.