male
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]male (not generally comparable, comparative maler or more male, superlative malest or most male)
- Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]
- male writers
- the leading male and female singers
- a male bird feeding a seed to a female
- in bee colonies, all drones are male
- intersex male patients
- 1995, Gill Van Hasselt, Childbirth: Your Choices for Managing Pain, Taylor Pub, →ISBN:
- We got the hang of [caring for a baby], Kate and I, with some quiet, surprising guidance from a gentle male nurse whose touching lack of intrusion was so instinctive as to seem part of the pattern.
- 2016, Tobias Raun, Out Online, →ISBN:
- Whereas many other trans male vloggers use the videos to assert a conventionally recognizable masculinity through sculpting and carrying their bodies as well as dressing and talking in masculine-coded ways, Carson explores and plays with ways of expressing femininity within (trans) maleness.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
- Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
- stereotypically male interests, an insect with typically male coloration
- 2006, Bonnie Roberts, Bruises on the Heart, →ISBN, page 118:
- A bright light was shone in her eye and then she heard a kind, male voice who she figured must be Dr. Smith. “Yes, let her rest now, but keep an eye on her blood pressure and her pulse. Check her about every 15 or 20 minutes. Call me if any problem occurs.”
- 2004, Mino Vianello, Gwen Moore, Women and Men in Political and Business Elites: A Comparative Study, →ISBN:
- More than that, we cannot find the same dynamics within female career trajectories as in the other two country groups, because the time-structure of female and male careers already shows great similarity within the older generation of elites. In addition, the pattern of the relation between female and male careers remains the same over time.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
- Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
- the male chromosome; like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
- (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
- 2012, Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems, →ISBN, page 43:
- The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.
- 2012, Sinéad Leleu, Michaela Greck-Ismair, German Pen Pals Made Easy KS3:
- If you are describing a female noun, you must make the adjective feminine by adding an 'e'. If you describe a male noun, you add an 'er'. For neutral nouns you add an 'es'.
- (of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
- 1967, Symposium on Infectious Multiple Drug Resistance: Genetics, Molecular Nature, and Clinical Implications of R Factors, May 25, 1967, page 7:
- Furthermore, male bacteria with fi + R factors, which inhibit the function of F (fi fertility inhibition) (Watanabe et al., 1964a), cannot form specific cell pairs at high frequencies. On the contrary, the formation of […]
- (Can we date this quote?), The genetics problem solver, Research & Education Assoc., →ISBN, page 443:
- Male bacteria having the sex factor, also known as the F or "fertility" factor, are termed P if the sex factor exists extrachromosomally. F+ bacteria can only conjugate with F, the female counterparts, which do not possess the F [factor].
- (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware. [from 16th c.]
- 1982, Popular Science, page 119:
- Male adapter connects female pipe threads to polyethylene cold-water pipe; [...] female flare coupling connects male pipe threads to flared copper or plastic;
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- female; androgynous; intersex; non-binary
- (grammar): female: see also masculine
Translations
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Noun
[edit]male (plural males)
- One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
- A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:male.
- An animal of the sex that has testes.
- A plant of the masculine sex.
- A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
- A bacterium which has the F factor.
- 2001 August 1, Harrison G. Echols, Operators and Promoters: The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creators, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- During mating, F+ male bacteria transfer the F factor to the recipient females, transforming them into F+ males. Males also retain a copy of their F factor for themselves (left). When Hfr (or high frequency recombination) males mate […]
- 2021 February 26, Gregor Majdic, Soul Mate Biology: Science of attachment and love, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 10:
- In this process, one bacterium designated the male bacterium transfers its DNA into the female bacterium. Bacteria are determined to be male or female by a small piece of DNA, called F-plasmid, or sex factor. Bacteria with this small piece of DNA are labeled as males, and bacteria that do not have this factor are considered females. […] Nevertheless, in addition to a small piece of DNA, male bacteria have some unique characteristics. They can make a special protrusion on their surface, called F-pilus. Pilae (plural for pilus) are hair-like structures that cover the […]
- A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
- 1981, Modern Photography:
- Work another rubber washer over the threads of the male adapter that is now sticking out of the bucket. […] cut out with an X-acto knife, then thread the female fittings to the males.
Usage notes
[edit]- Similar to objections over the usage of female(s) as a noun, some people find it dehumanizing to refer to men as "male(s)" due to its zoological use, especially in non-technical contexts. It is frequently used in police blotters, dispatches, reports, and legal, medical, or physiological documents to encompass boys and men, further fueling aversion through this association with criminality and/or vice.
Antonyms
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Derived terms
[edit]- alpha male
- alta-male
- angry white male
- anti-male
- antimale
- beta male
- bio-male
- bio male
- cis-male
- cis male
- dead white European male
- delta male
- female-to-male
- gamma male
- heteromale
- intermale
- ktiv male
- male-administration
- male alpha
- male answer syndrome
- male as norm
- male-assigned
- male-bot
- malebot
- male bot
- male chauvinism
- male chauvinist
- male chauvinistic
- male circumcision
- maledom
- male-dominated
- male engyne
- male enhancement
- male-fail
- male fern
- male-friendly
- male gaze
- male-gazey
- male genital cutting
- male genital mutilation
- male genital mutilator
- male impersonator
- maleless
- male liberation
- male member
- male menopause
- male menstruation
- maleness
- maleocracy
- male organ
- male pattern baldness
- male pattern violence
- male-pattern violence
- male rhyme
- malestream
- malesub
- male tank
- male-to-female
- merm
- metamale
- mimbo
- moid
- multimale
- murse
- neomale
- nonmale
- nu-male
- omega male
- pale male
- pseudomale
- shemale
- she-male
- sigma male
- sneaker male
- supermale
- trans-identified male
- trans-male
- trans male
- XX male syndrome
See also
[edit]- macho
- ♂ (symbol for male)
- sex, gender, gender identity
Anagrams
[edit]Afar
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]malé
- Alternative form of maléey
References
[edit]- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Danish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Low German mālen (“to draw, paint”), from Old Saxon mālōn, from Proto-West Germanic *mālōn, from Proto-Germanic *mēlōną, which could be related to *mailą (“spot, blemish, mark”). Cognate with Icelandic mála (“to paint”).
Verb
[edit]male (imperative mal, present maler, past malede or malte, past participle malet or malt)
- To paint.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse mala, from Proto-Germanic *malaną (“to grind”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, rub, break up”). Cognate with Icelandic mala.
Verb
[edit]male (imperative mal, infinitive at male, present tense maler, past tense malede, perfect tense er/har malet)
Derived terms
[edit]- maling (“grinding”)
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]male
Verb
[edit]male
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From prefix mal- (antonym) + -e (indicates adverbs).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]male
- on the contrary
- opposingly; in opposition
- male ol... ― as opposed to...
Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From malev (“army”), a word attested in the 13th century Livonian Chronicle of Henry. Coined by Ado Grenzstein in the 19th century.
Noun
[edit]male (genitive male, partitive malet)
Declension
[edit]Declension of male (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | male | maled | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | male | ||
genitive | malede | ||
partitive | malet | malesid | |
illative | malle malesse |
maledesse | |
inessive | males | maledes | |
elative | malest | maledest | |
allative | malele | maledele | |
adessive | malel | maledel | |
ablative | malelt | maledelt | |
translative | maleks | maledeks | |
terminative | maleni | maledeni | |
essive | malena | maledena | |
abessive | maleta | maledeta | |
comitative | malega | maledega |
See also
[edit]Chess pieces in Estonian · malendid (see also: male) (layout · text) | |||||
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kuningas | lipp | vanker | oda | ratsu | ettur |
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]male
- inflection of malen:
Hawaiian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]male
- to marry
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]male (comparative peggio, superlative malissimo)
Noun
[edit]male m (plural mali)
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]male
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From malus (“bad, wicked”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈma.le/, [ˈmäɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.le/, [ˈmäːle]
Adverb
[edit]male (comparative pēius, superlative pessimē)
- badly
- Antonym: bene
- 1413, Jan Hus, Epistola ad Iohannem de Reinstein[2]:
- Melius est bene morī quam male vīvere.
- It is better to die well than to live badly.
- wrongly
- Synonym: prāvē
- cruelly, wickedly
- not much; feebly
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “male”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “male”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- male in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to deserve ill of a person; to treat badly: male mereri de aliquo
- (ambiguous) to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bene, male audire (ab aliquo)
- (ambiguous) to inculcate good (bad) principles: bene (male) praecipere alicui
- (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: animus male sibi conscius
- (ambiguous) a moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) moratus
- (ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
- (ambiguous) to manage one's affairs, household, property well or ill: rem bene (male) gerere (vid. sect. XVI. 10a)
- (ambiguous) to buy dearly: magno or male emere
- (ambiguous) to win, lose a fight (of the commander): rem (bene, male) gerere (vid. sect. XII. 2, note rem gerere...)
- (ambiguous) I am sorry to hear..: male (opp. bene) narras (de)
- (ambiguous) to deserve ill of a person; to treat badly: male mereri de aliquo
Limburgish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch mālen, from Old Dutch *malan, from Proto-West Germanic *malan, from Proto-Germanic *malaną.
Verb
[edit]male
- To mill.
Conjugation
[edit]non-finite forms | infinitive | gerund | present participle | past participle | adjective | adverb |
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(tö) male | 't male n | malendj | höbbe gemale | gemaledje, gemaledjer, gemaledjes | gemaledj, gemaledjelik | |
number & tense | verb-second order | verb-first order | ||||
present | past | subjunctive | present | past | subjunctive | |
first person singular | male | maledje | male | male | maledje-n | male-n |
second person singular | males | maledjes | male | males | maledjes | maler |
third person singular | maletj | maledje | male | maletj'r | maledje | maler |
first person plural | male | maledje | male | maletj | maledje | male |
second person plural | maletj | maledje | male | maletj | maledje | maletj |
third person plural | male | maledje | male | male | maledje | maler |
other forms | noun | imperative singular impolite | imperative singular polite | imperative dual | imperative plural | inclusive |
't gemale n | male! | maletj! | maletj, maletj! | maletj! | malem |
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Old French masle, malle, from Late Latin masclus, from Latin masculus; compare femele and masculyn.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]male (plural males)
- A man; a male human or animal.
- (rare) A "male" gem or plant.
- (rare) Manhood; the state of being male.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “māle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adjective
[edit]male
- male (of masculine sex or gender)
- Used in extended reference to supposedly "male" gems, plants, or astrological portents.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “māle, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and continental Old French male, from Frankish *malhu, from Proto-Germanic *malhō.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]male (plural males)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “māl(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
[edit]Borrowed from Latin mālum, from Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon), of unknown origin.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]male
- (chiefly Late Middle English, uncommon) The appletree (Malus domestica) or its fruit.
References
[edit]- “māl(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]male
- Alternative form of mayle
Etymology 5
[edit]Noun
[edit]male
- (Northern) Alternative form of mel
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse mála and Middle Low German malen.
Verb
[edit]male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)
- To paint.
See also
[edit]- måle (Nynorsk)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]male (imperative mal, present tense maler, passive males, simple past mol or malte, past participle malt, present participle malende)
- To grind or mill (to make smaller by breaking with a device).
- To purr (of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented)
Derived terms
[edit]- den som kommer først til mølla, får først malt (“to mill”)
- hvitmalt (“painted white”)
- male seg inn i et hjørne (“to paint”)
- maleri (“painting”)
- maling (“paint, painting”)
- rødmalt (“painted red”)
- skjønnmale (“to paint”)
- umalt (both senses)
References
[edit]- “male” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]male (present tense mel, past tense mol, supine male, past participle malen, present participle malande, imperative mal)
- Alternative form of mala
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]male (present tense malar, past tense mala, past participle mala, passive infinitive malast, present participle malande, imperative male/mal)
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]māle
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin mala, from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”).
Noun
[edit]male oblique singular, f (oblique plural males, nominative singular male, nominative plural males)
Descendants
[edit]Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]male
Sardinian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin male. Compare Italian male.
Adverb
[edit]male
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]male
- inflection of mal:
Toba Batak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Batak *ləhey.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]male
References
[edit]- Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landesdrukkerij, p. 113.
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- enm:Anatomy
- enm:Astrology
- enm:Bags
- enm:Botany
- enm:Fruits
- enm:Male
- enm:Geology
- enm:Organs
- enm:Trees
- enm:Male people
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