androgyne

From French androgyne, from Latin androgynus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.dɹə.d͡ʒaɪn/

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androgyne (plural androgynes)

1. A person who is androgynous. [from mid-16th c.]
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five:

     Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old boy. The boy was as beautiful as Eve. Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy, by the heavenly androgyne.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 33:

     The yogi is in this way the androgyne of prehistory reachieved.

   • 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 June 2019:

     There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.

2. An androgynous plant.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.dʁɔ.ʒin/

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androgyne (plural androgynes)

1. androgynous

androgyne m or f by sense (plural androgynes)

1. androgyne, androgynous person
2. androgyne, androgynous plant

• androgynéité
• androgynie
• androgynique

• “androgyne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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androgyne

1. inflection of androgyn:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

androgyne

1. vocative singular of androgynus

• “androgyne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press