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androgyne en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/

Etymology

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

Meanings

1. A person who is androgynous.
   • Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne. 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five:
   • There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology. 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:
   • The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33:
2. An androgynous plant.

Forms

Deriveds

androgynist · androgynize · androgynise · androgynism

Translations (24)

cmn 雙性人 /双性人 (a person who is androgynous) · cop ϩⲟⲩⲧ ⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ (a person who is androgynous) · he אַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס (a person who is androgynous) · ru гермафроди́т (a person who is androgynous) · arc אנדרוגינוס (a person who is androgynous) · cmn 中性人 (a person who is androgynous) · ca androgin (a person who is androgynous) · fr androgyne (a person who is androgynous) · et androgüün (a person who is androgynous) · pt andrógino (a person who is androgynous) · eo androgino (a person who is androgynous) · ro androgin (a person who is androgynous) · gl andróxino (a person who is androgynous) · el ανδρόγυνος (a person who is androgynous) · it androgino (a person who is androgynous) · ru андроги́н (a person who is androgynous) · es andrógino (a person who is androgynous) · fr androgyne (androgynous plant) · ro androgin (androgynous plant) · ru андроги́н (androgynous plant) · fi androgyyni (a person who is androgynous) · da androgyn (a person who is androgynous) · pl androgyne (a person who is androgynous) · ru обоепо́лое расте́ние (androgynous plant)