Etymology

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Today it means: A surname from Old French. Full definition →

Old French gendre
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromgendre“son-in-law”
  2. English todayGenders

From Old French gendre (“son-in-law”) + the patronymic suffix -s.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchgendre all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.