Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesHaving both masculine and feminine gender.
Another conspicuous feature of Romanian noun morphology is the class of ambigeneric nouns, masculine when singular and feminine when plural.
2010, Ti Alkire, Carol Rosen, Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction, page 282 - broadlynot comparableHaving both masculine and feminine gender.
The ambigeneric controllers behave as masculine and feminine , depending on the gender of the speaker
2018, Sebastian Fedden, Jenny Audring, Greville G. Corbett, Non-Canonical Gender Systems, page 2351 more example
The cast is excellent, Mary Garden excelling inthe difficult part of Liz, while Sir Al Forbes-Robertson Jolson's portrayal of the ambigeneric hero is a triumph of tact, vigour, and nuance; and profusely illustrated brochures, entitled " Anthony Comstock's Reminiscences, or Tramping on Life " are distributed ( gratis ) to members of the audience, at eacch and every performance which I myself enjoyed very mcuh.
2018, E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage, A Miscellany (Revised)
Origin
By surface analysis, ambi- + generic
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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