Translation
sex; gender
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Word origin
From Latin sexus, the ordinary Latin word for either of the two divisions of a species. It reached Esperanto through the international scientific vocabulary.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- sexus
- English cognates
- sex, sexual
Examples
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In Esperanto the word homo does not show sex.
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The law is equal for both sexes.
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She did not want to say the sex of the baby.
Worth knowing because Esperanto grammar keeps bumping into it. Nouns have no grammatical gender at all, so is a fact about the world, not about the word; the marking happens through the affixes -in- for a female counterpart and - for a mixed group. What counts as a good solution here has been argued over for a century, and still is.
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Word family
Words built on sekso with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- aliseksemaadjective
heterosexual, straight
aliasekso-em-: inclined to the other sex
- ambaŭseksemaadjective
bisexual
ambaŭsekso-em-: inclined to both sexes
- samseksemaadjective
gay, homosexual
samasekso-em-: inclined to the same sex
- samseksemulinonoun
lesbian
samasekso-em--ul--in-: a woman inclined to the same sex
- samseksemulonoun
homosexual, gay person
samasekso-em--ul-: a person inclined to the same sex
- seksperfortonoun
rape
seksoperforto
- seksumiverb
to have sex
sekso-um-
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 2: sekso, abunda, krono and 7 more words.