epicene

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.).

   “In many names of animals, the same word with the same gender is used for both sexes: ἡ ἁλὠπηξ the fox, male or female. These are said to be epicoene.”

2. sıfat Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents.
3. sıfat Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex.

   “Boating when epicene is nice, in truth, / E'en though one must allow, / The danger of giving the helm to youth / While pleasure rules the prow. / [...] / 'Tis best when Frank takes his cousin ashore, / She loves botanising, / While Sissy who's left, can handle an oar / In a manner surprising.”

4. sıfat Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.

   “Five High School boys came down the road abreast. Ellis saw them coming, a row of yellow, malicious faces—epicene faces, horribly smooth and young, grinning at him with deliberate insolence.”

5. sıfat Indeterminate; mixed.
6. sıfat Of a man: effeminate.

   “A lot of rather etiolated, epicene, middle-class, male intellectuals have discovered a new authenticity when they come to identify themselves as football fans.”

7. isim An epicene word; preceded by the: the epicene words of a language as a class.
8. isim An epicene person, whether biologically asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; an androgyne, a hermaphrodite.

   “Onely one Iſland they have, is call'd the Iſle of the Epecœnes, becauſe there under one Article both kindes are ſignified, for they are faſhioned alike, male and female the ſame, [...] you doe not know the delight of the Epicœnes in Moon-ſhine.”

9. isim A transsexual; also, a transvestite.

   “Epicoene, or The ſilent VVoman. A comœdie. [title page]”

10. isim An effeminate man.