Where does “transgender” come from?

Transgender derives from English trans- combined with gender, which comes from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus meaning "kind" or "type," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- meaning "to beget" or "produce."

transgender (English): Having a gender which is different from the sex...

Definitions

  1. Having a gender which is different from the sex...

Ancestry of “transgender”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishgenderkind
2Middle Englishgender—
3Middle Frenchgendre—
4Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
5Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
7Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth

Words derived from “transgender”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- →