Etymology

-*

Today it means: Appended to gendered terms to imply that nonbinary and other queer identities are not excluded. Full definition →

translingual * ← German *
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  1. German · derived from*
  2. translingual · derived from*
  3. English today-*

From translingual *, a wildcard operator in computing that can represent any text, possibly influenced by German *, used to separate gendered inflections.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.