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Definition sex
Etymology 1
From Middle English sexe (“gender”), from Old French sexe (“genitals; gender”), from Latin sexus (“gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”), of uncertain etymology. Sometimes connected with Latin sec?, sec?re (“divide, cut”), with the idea of division of the species.
Usage for women specifically follows Middle French le sexe (“women”) (attested in 1580). Usage for third and additional sexes follows French troisième sexe, referring to masculine women in 1817 and homosexuals in 1847. First used by Lord Byron and others in English in reference to Catholic clergy. Usage for sexual intercourse first attested in 1900 (in the writings of H.G. Wells).
Noun
sex (countable and uncountable, plural sexes)
- (countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
- (countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
- (countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
- (uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
- (obsolete or literary, uncountable, with "the") Women; the human female sex and those who belong to it.
- (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
- (countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina.
Verb
sex (third-person singular simple present sexes, present participle sexing, simple past and past participle sexed)
- (zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of an animal.
- (chiefly US, colloquial, intransitive) To have sex with.
Etymology 2
From sect.
Noun
sex (plural sexes)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of sect.
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