adj
Meaning 1
Between the sexes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, usually
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
intersexual
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adj
Meaning 2
Having both male and female characteristics, or characteristics intermediate between the sexes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
An intersex person.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 4
having sexual characteristics intermediate between those of male and female
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
existing or occurring between the sexes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Indo-European *h1entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder. Proto-Italic *seksus Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Italic *sekaō Latin secō Latin secāre? Latin sexus Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sexuālisbor. English sexual English intersexual From inter- + sexual.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: sukupuolten välinen — between the sexes
- Italian: intersessuale — between the sexes
- Kazakh: интерсексуалды (interseksualdy) — between the sexes
- Kazakh: интерсексуалдық (interseksualdyq) — between the sexes
- Catalan: intersexual — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- Esperanto: interseksa — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- Esperanto: ambaŭseksa — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- Finnish: intersukupuolinen — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- German: intersexuell — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- German: intergeschlechtlich — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- Hungarian: interszexuális — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- Italian: intersessuale — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- Spanish: intersexual — biology: having both male and female characteristics
- Catalan: intersexual — Translations
- German: Intersex-Person — Translations
- German: Intersexuelle — Translations
- German: Intersexueller — Translations