male
Significado (Inglés)
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- Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
- Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
- Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
- Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
- Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
- Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
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Sinónimos
male person
man’s
male connector
male-
married man
sexual organs
positive electricity
male being
male contact
male child
men’s
plug connector
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Pronunciado como (IPA)
/meɪl/
Etimología (Inglés)
Etymology tree Latin mās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -culus Latin masculus Vulgar Latin masclus Old French maslebor. Middle English male English male From Middle English male, borrowed from Old French malle, masle (Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus (“masculine, a male”), diminutive of mās (“male, masculine”). Doublet of macho. Displaced native Old English wǣpned (“male”, literally “penised”), derived from the noun wǣpn (“weapon”), which had the secondary sense “penis”.
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