MASCULINE

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English masculin, from Latin masculinus, from masculus, noun, male, diminutive of mas male Date: 14th century 1. male , having qualities appropriate to or usually associated with a man, of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to males , 3. having or occurring in a stressed final syllable , having the final chord occurring on a strong beat , ~ly adverb masculinity noun II. noun Date: 14th century the ~ gender, a noun, pronoun, adjective, or inflectional form or class of the ~ gender, a male person