Where does “transmasculine” come from?
transmasculine (English) comes from English masculine, from French masculin, from Italian maschile, from Spanish masculino, from Spanish -ismo, from French féminisme, from French -ïsme, from Latin -isma — Creates action/result nouns from verb stems.
transmasculine (English): Pertaining to people who were assigned female but...
Definitions
- Pertaining to people who were assigned female but...
Ancestry of “transmasculine”, step by step
transmasculine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English masculine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | masculine | Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly; Of or... |
| 2 | French | masculin | male; masculine |
| 3 | Italian | maschile | masculine, male; virile, manly; men's, boys' |
| 4 | Spanish | masculino | masculine, male |
| 5 | Spanish | -ismo | -ism |
| 6 | French | féminisme | feminism |
| 7 | French | -ïsme | -ism, variant of -isme following vowels |
| 8 | Latin | -isma | Alternative form of -ismus; -ism |
| 9 | Latin | -ismus | -ism |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | -ισμός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | -μός | Forms abstract nouns |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -mós | Creates action/result nouns from verb stems |
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 |