Etymology

neuter

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Today it means: Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another. Full definition →

Middle English neutre ← Latin neuter
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  1. Latin · derived fromneuter
  2. Middle English · inherited fromneutre
  3. English todayneuter

Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“either”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English either, English whether, and neither.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.