Adjective: masculine
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more masculine |
| Superlative | most masculine |
Sample Sentences
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“John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names.
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That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy. [1818, Henry Hallam, View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages:]
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[…] a masculine church. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
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The noun Student is masculine in German.
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German uses the masculine form of the definite article, der, with Student.
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Masculine caesura, masculine catalexis, masculine ending, masculine rhyme.
Adjectives inflected like masculine
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English masculyne, masculyn, from Old French masculin, from Latin masculīnus, diminutive of masculus (“male, manly”), itself a diminutive of mās (“male”). Displaced native Old English werlīċ (literally “manly”). See: Latin Adjectives '
masculīnus'.
Verbs referencing "masculine"
Finnish Adjectives
maskuliininen.