Etymology

regender

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Today it means: To cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
  8. Proto-Italic*genos
  9. Latingenus
  10. Old Frenchgendre
  11. Middle Englishgendre
  12. Englishgender
  13. English todayregender

From re- + gender.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.