genders

noun

the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives

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The word genders breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root gen-, from Latin genus (“kind, birth”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.