The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγυνή“female”
- English todaygynemimetic
From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”); equivalent to gyne- + mimetic. Literally “female mimic”. First put forward in a 1984 article by sexologists John Money and Malgorzata Lamacz.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγυνή all →
gynecologygynegylanygynecophile-gynypodogynium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.