Etymology

genre

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Today it means: A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks. Full definition →

French genre ← Old French gen(d)re ← Latin genere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromgenere
  2. Old French · derived fromgen(d)re
  3. French · borrowed fromgenre
  4. English todaygenre

Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.

Words from the same roots

Latingenere all →

gender

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.