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Masculine vs Nonvirile - What's the difference?

masculine | nonvirile |

In grammar terms the difference between masculine and nonvirile

is that masculine is a word of the masculine gender while nonvirile is pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter nouns.

As a noun masculine

is the masculine gender.

masculine

English

(wikipedia masculine)

Alternative forms

*

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
  • Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.
  • * :
    • Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.
  • Belonging to males; typically used by males.
    • “John”, “Paul” and “Jake” are masculine names.
  • Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
  • * :
    • That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.
  • * :
    • a masculine church.
  • (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
  • # (of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.
  • The noun ''Student'' is masculine in German.
  • # (of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.
  • German uses the masculine of the definite article, ''der'', with ''Student''.

    • Synonyms

    * (of the male sex) male * (having qualities stereotypical of the male gender) manly, virile

    Antonyms

    * (of the male sex) female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the male gender) emasculated, unmanly, epicene and effeminate * (grammar) feminine, neuter

    Derived terms

    * masculinely * masculineness * masculinity * masculinization * demasculinization * emasculate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) The masculine gender.
  • *
  • (grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
  • *
  • That which is masculine.
  • *
  • A man.
  • * '>citation

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    nonvirile

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-virile

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not virile.
  • * 1984 : , The Spell of New Mexico , [http://books.google.com/books?id=YxmAmXA-SPQC]
    • Then there is a consistency, if this feminine theory is true, in the old-womanlike faces of the middle-aged Pueblo Indians; they are stout and appear nonvirile and non-sexual.
  • * 1992 : Edward Jayne, Negative poetics? , [http://books.google.com/books?id=tsGEAAAAIAAJ]
    • Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual
  • * 2004 : Jude Deveraux, Remembrance? , [http://books.google.com/books?id=x0iRpH3M-VEC]
    • As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter nouns.
  • * 1975 : Maria Zagórska Brooks, Polish Reference Grammar , page 317] ([http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detail.cfm?isbn=9789027933133 Walter de Gruyter; ISBN 9789027933133)
    • The nonvirile' form is used for nouns of masculine gender not referring to human beings and for neuter and feminine gender nouns. Numerals from five through ten distinguish between two forms: the form for virile gender nouns and the form for ' nonvirile gender nouns which the numerals quantify.

    Antonyms

    * virile