The story
- French · derived fromtrois“three”
- Latin · derived fromneu(ter)“neuter”
- French · derived fromneu(tre)“neuter”
- English todayneutrois
Apparently a blend of French neu(tre) (“neuter”, adjective) or its etymon Latin neu(ter) (“neuter”, adjective) + French trois (“three”) (referring to the third gender), coined by Holly A. Burnham in 1995 as a self-description.
Words from the same roots
Frenchtrois all →
First known use, by meaning
- from 1995 Chiefly of a person: having a neutral gender (being neither male nor female), and having or seeking to have no or reduced physical sexual characteristics; contrasts with agender.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.