Etymology

intergender

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Today it means: Taking place between people of opposite genders. Full definition →

English gender ← Middle English gendre ← Old French gendre
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
  9. Proto-Italic*genos
  10. Latingenus
  11. Old Frenchgendre
  12. Middle Englishgendre
  13. Englishgender
  14. English todayintergender

From inter- + gender.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.