Where does “trans-curious” come from?
trans-curious (English) comes from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵénh₁os — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
trans-curious (English): Interested in one's potential transgenderism
Definitions
- Interested in one's potential transgenderism
Ancestry of “trans-curious”, step by step
trans-curious traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English trans
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 2 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 3 | English | gender | kind |
| 4 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 5 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 6 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |
via English curious
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | curious | Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore... |
| 2 | Middle English | curious | careful, meticulous; ingenious, skilful; expert,... |
| 3 | Old French | curios | — |
| 4 | Latin | curiosus | Careful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted;... |
| 5 | Latin | -osus | -ose, -ous; full of, overly, prone to |
| 6 | Old Latin | -osos | accusative masculine plural of -ōsus |
| 7 | Latin | ont-to-s | — |
| 8 | Latin | -o-wont-to-s | — |