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“masculine” in Latin
malusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, mvirīlismanly, masculine, virile; maturemasculusmale, masculine; manly, virile; Used of the larger and coarser varieties of plants or other natural productsmasculīnusmasculine, male (of humans or animals); manly, worthy of manhood; masculine (gender)fortisstrong, powerful; firm, resolute, steadfast, stout; courageous, bravecōnstōto stand together; to stand still; to remain the same; stand firm; to agree, correspond, fitgravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hard
The English word masculine itself goes back to Latin mās, through masculīnus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
masculine
PROP., male, virilis; masculus; masculinus: the masculine gender (in grammar), genus masculinum (Quint.: ☞ also, genus virile, Varr. and Gell.; but the former is the common term).
PROP., Of or proper to the male sex, virilis.
Figuratively, bold, brave (opposed to effeminate), virilis (also, masculus, Hor.); fortis; constans; gravis: masculine courage, animus virilis, fortis, constans; virtus virilis (Cic.); audacia virilis (Sall.): masculine spirit, character, ingenium virile (Sall.); ingenium corroboratum, confirmatum (Cic.): a masculine style, oratio virilis (or fortis et virilis), gravis; nervi orationis (Cic.); sermo virilis (Quint.); oratio mascula (Muret.): masculine oratory, vera et mascula eloquentia (Ruhnken).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for masculine?
- The usual Latin words for “masculine” are malus, virīlis, masculus; also masculīnus, fortis, cōnstō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.