neuter

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
2. Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
3. Intransitive.
4. Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
5. Sexless, nonsexual.
6. Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.

Noun

1. An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
2. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
3. The neuter gender.
4. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
5. An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

Verb

1. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
2. To rid of sexuality.
3. To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
4. To make grammatically neuter.

Conceptos

neutro

neutral

castrar

género neutro

capar

Sinónimos

castrate

neutral

sexless

spay

geld

asexual

alter

caponize

cut

emasculate

neutrality

sterilise

sterilize

desex

inert

infertile

intransitive

fix

mediosilicic

neutralize

emasculated

sexlessness

androgyny

sterile

caponise

desexualise

unsex

worker

androgyne

demasculinize

hysterectomize

neuter gender

indifferency

hermaphrodite

impartial

impotent

indifferent

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈnjuːtə/

Etimología (Inglés)

Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“whether”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English whether and neither.