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feminin
feminine /femiˈnin/
adjective#3908 most common
Also: womanly, female (grammatical gender)
Example sentences
Ana este un nume feminin.
Ana is a feminine name.
Genul feminin este unul dintre cele trei genuri din limba română.
The feminine gender is one of the three genders in the Romanian language.
Parfumul are o aromă florală și feminină.
The perfume has a floral, feminine scent.
Substantivele feminine se termină adesea în -ă la singular.
Feminine nouns often end in -ă in the singular.
Criticii au remarcat sensibilitatea feminină a personajului principal din roman.
Critics noted the feminine sensitivity of the main character in the novel.
Arhetipul femininului sacru apare frecvent în mitologiile antice.
The archetype of the sacred feminine appears frequently in ancient mythologies.
Word family
Etymology
Feminin entered Romanian in the nineteenth century as a learned borrowing from French féminin, part of a wave of Latinate vocabulary that reshaped the language during that period. French féminin itself continues Latin femininus, an adjective built on femina, meaning woman. Some etymologists trace femina back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to suckle, since the word originally described the one who nurses a child.
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