Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia - Gender
In a variety of different contexts, gender refers to the masculinity or femininity of words, persons, characteristics, or non-human organ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Etymology And Usage
Gender comes from Middle English gendre, from Latin genus, all meaning "kind", "sort", or "type". Ultimately from the proto Indo European...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Etymology And Usage
Gender comes from Middle English gendre, from Latin genus, all meaning "kind", "sort", or "type". Ultimately from the proto Indo European...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God And Gender: Encyclopedia - God And Gender
This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology Of India: Encyclopedia - Etymology Of India
India is a nation with three main names in official and popular use, and with historical and cultural importance. All three names were or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology: Encyclopedia - Etymology
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Some words have been derived from other languages, possibly in a changed form (the source...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religions On God And Gender: Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religions On God And Gender
This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-specific Pronoun: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-specific Pronoun - Generic Usage
Usage of him and his to refer to a generic member of a mixed sex group was prescribed by manuals of style and school textbooks from the e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Childfree: Encyclopedia Ii - Childfree - Etymology And Usage
The term stands in contrast to "childless", which some argue implies that children are "lacking" and desired; childfree persons would arg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homosexuality: Encyclopedia Ii - Homosexuality - Etymology And Usage
The word homosexual translates literally as "same-sex," being a hybrid of the Greek prefix homo- meaning "same" and the Latin root sex- m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyrics: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyrics - Etymology And Usage
From the Greek, a lyric was originally a song sung with a lyre. A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective, personal point of view. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady: Encyclopedia Ii - Lady - Etymology And Usage
The word comes from Old English hlaifdige; the first part of the word is laif, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hlaford, lord; the se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Road: Encyclopedia Ii - Road - Usage And Etymology
In original usage, a "road" was simply any pathway fit for riding ("road" is cognate with "ride", e.g.: ships ride at anchor in roads). T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fortepiano: Encyclopedia Ii - Fortepiano - Etymology And Usage
"Fortepiano" is Italian for "loud-soft", just as the formal name for the modern piano, "pianoforte", is "soft-loud". Both are abbreviatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hospodar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hospodar - Etymology And Slavic Usage
It is a derivative of gospod, lord, and is akin to gosudar, which primarily means sovereign, and was also used in Russia as a polite form...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pederasty: Encyclopedia Ii - Pederasty - Etymology And Usage
"Pederasty" derives from the combination of pais (Greek for 'boy') with erastis (Greek for 'lover'; cf. eros). Late Latin pæderasta was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Holocaust: Encyclopedia Ii - The Holocaust - Etymology And Usage Of The Term
Main article: Names of the Holocaust The word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurmi: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurmi - Etymology And Usage
"Kurmi" in Sanskrit, which is frequently used in the Ramayana, literally translates as "I can" or "I am able", or "within my power to act...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mass Media: Encyclopedia Ii - Mass Media - Etymology And Usage
Media (the plural of medium) is a truncation of the term media of communication, referring to those organized means of dissemination of f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Holocaust: Encyclopedia Ii - The Holocaust - Etymology And Usage Of The Term
The word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-semitism - Etymology And Usage
The word antisemitic (antisemitisch in German) was probably first used in 1860 by the Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider in the phrase ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-semitism - Etymology And Usage
The word antisemitic (antisemitisch in German) was probably first used in 1860 by the Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider in the phrase...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-semitism - Etymology And Usage
The word antisemitic (antisemitisch in German) was probably first used in 1860 by the Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider in the phrase ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shipping Fandom: Encyclopedia Ii - Shipping Fandom - Etymology And Usage Of Terminology
Though ship is undoubtedly a derivative of the word relationship (or perhaps worship) in some way, where and when it was first used to in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shi'a Etymology: Encyclopedia Ii - Shi'a Etymology - Quranic Usage
in Arabic: وَإِنَّ مِن شِيعَتِهِ لَإِبْرَاهِيمَ Translated to English: "And most surely Ibrahim followe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Man - Etymology
The term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Girl: Encyclopedia Ii - Girl - Usage
By the 1700s, there was a difference in some uses of the word between England and the Americas. In England, a "girl" was often a serving ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-specific Pronoun: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-specific Pronoun - Pronouns And Personal Gender
In general, transgendered people insist on being referred to by the gender pronoun appropriate to the gender they identify as. Some gende...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Etymology
The English term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived therefrom can designate any or even all of the human ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Etymology
The English term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived therefrom can designate any or even all of the human ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-specific Pronoun: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-specific Pronoun - Ships And Countries
Traditionally ships have been referred to using the feminine pronouns (even ships named after men, such as the USS Abraham Lincoln), as w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Girl: Encyclopedia Ii - Girl - Gender Roles
In almost all cultures, girls have been socialized into gender roles. Girls have traditionally been associated with playing with dolls an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gay: Encyclopedia Ii - Gay - Etymology
The word started to acquire sexual connotations in the late 17th century, being used with meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Brief Description Of Gender Roles In Prison
Gender roles in prison go further than the "Don't drop the soap" joke. The truth is that some prisoners, either by choice or by force, ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Brief Description Of Gender Roles In Prison
Gender roles in prison go further than the "Don't drop the soap"-joke. The truth is that some prisoners, either by choice or by force, ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Man - Gender Roles
In terms of gender, men differ from women by a variety of behaviors. Certain characteristics generally associated with men may be delinea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Culture And Gender Roles
Main article: gender role In many prehistoric cultures, women assumed a particular cultural role. In hunter-gatherer societies, women wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allah: Encyclopedia Ii - Allah - Etymology
Allah - Usage. Although, outside the Arab world, use of the word Allāh is most often associated with Islam, it is not exclusive to tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gay: Encyclopedia Ii - Gay - Commonly Accepted Usage
Overview article: Terminology of homosexuality Gay is used as an adjective to describe sexual orientation (attraction, preference, or i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Culture And Gender Roles
Main article: gender role In many prehistoric cultures, women assumed a particular cultural role. In hunter-gatherer societies, women wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Allah: Encyclopedia Ii - Allah - Etymology
Allah - Usage. Although, outside the Arab world, use of the word Allāh is most often associated with Islam, it is not exclusive to tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Culture And Gender Roles
Ideas of appropriate behaviour according to gender vary among cultures and era, although some aspects receive more widespread attention t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Natural Gender And Grammatical Gender
The use of gender-based classification of nouns (as is common in Indo-European and Semitic) languages can sometimes be confusing, because...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Natural Gender And Grammatical Gender
The use of gender-based classification of nouns (as is common in Indo-European and Semitic) languages can sometimes be confusing, because...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Reference
Gender-neutral language - Examples. One might state, "Tomorrow I will meet my new doctor; I hope he is friendly."; however, unless one ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Gender Roles And Feminism
Most feminists argue that traditional gender roles are oppressive for women. They assume that the female gender role was constructed as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Gender Roles And Feminism
Most feminists argue that traditional gender roles are oppressive for women. They assume that the female gender role was constructed as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Differences In Spoken Japanese: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Differences In Spoken Japanese - Gender Differences In Modern Society
As women gain an increasing leadership role in Japanese society, notions of onnarashisa and otokorashisa, i.e. what is deemed appropriate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - History
Many of the masculine terms in Modern English come from gender neutral terms in Old English. For example, the word man was originally gen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Examples
One might state, "Tomorrow I will meet my new doctor; I hope he is friendly."; however, unless one is certain that the new doctor is a ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Terminology Of Homosexuality: Encyclopedia Ii - Terminology Of Homosexuality - Etymology
The word homosexual translates literally as "of the same sex," being a hybrid of the Greek prefix homo- meaning "same" (as distinguished ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Guidelines
Many different authorities have presented guidelines on whether, and if so and where, to use gender-neutral, or "non-sexist" language. Se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Sexual Orientation And Gender Roles
Traditional gender roles include male attraction to females, and vice versa. Gay, lesbian, bisexual people, and others usually don't conf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shi'a Etymology: Encyclopedia Ii - Shi'a Etymology - Initial History
Initially used as a title for a group of followers (of Ali) in praise, it later on became an ideological path in reference to the followe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shi'a Etymology: Encyclopedia Ii - Shi'a Etymology - Initial History
Initially used as a title for a group of followers (of Ali) in praise, it later on became an ideological path in reference to the followe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shit: Encyclopedia Ii - Shit - Etymology
Scholars trace the word back to Old Norse origin (skīta), and it is virtually certain that it was used in some form by preliterate Germa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esperanto Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Esperanto Vocabulary - Gender
Some Esperanto roots are semantically masculine or feminine. In general, feminine words are derived from their masculine equivalent. Esp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Socialization
The process through which the individual learns and accepts roles is called socialization. Socialization works by encouraging wanted and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shit: Encyclopedia Ii - Shit - Usage
The word shit is used by English speakers, but it is considered vulgar, and thus is usually avoided in formal speech. A less vulgar subst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The: Encyclopedia Ii - The - Etymology
The existence of a definite article is not believed by linguists to be shared by the common ancestor of the Indo-European languages (Prot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Talcott Parsons' Views Of Gender Roles
Working in the United States, Talcott Parsons5 developed a model of the nuclear family in 1955. (At that place and time, the nuclear fami...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Identity: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Identity - Relationship To Gender Role
The related term, "gender role," has two meanings that in individual cases may be divergent: First, people's gender roles are the totalit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Copt: Encyclopedia Ii - Copt - Etymology
The English word Copt is from New Latin Coptus, which is derived from Arabic qubṭi قبطي (pl: qubṭ قبط and aqbāṭ أقباط)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Identity: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Identity - Formation Of Gender Identity
The formation of a gender identity is a complex process that starts with conception, but which involves critical growth processes during ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Than: Encyclopedia Ii - Than - Usage
Usage prescriptionists have ordained a number of rules concerning than that those who do not wish to be edited or corrected may wish to n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Gender Neutral Language Modification In Other Languages
The situation of gender neutral language modification is very different in languages that have masculine and feminine grammatical gender,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-specific Job Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-specific Job Title - Debate
There is extensive debate as to whether gender-specific job titles are appropriate in a professional setting. This debate reflects the de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-specific Job Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-specific Job Title - Generally Accepted Writing Conventions
Proponents of gender-neutral job titles believe they should be used, especially when referring to hypothetical persons. For example, fire...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shall And Will: Encyclopedia Ii - Shall And Will - Etymology
Both shall and will are verbs of ancient Germanic ancestry. In Proto-Indo-European, an inflected future tense existed, but that tense was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Criticism Of Biologism
Gender roles have long been a staple of the Nature/Nurture debate: Traditional theories of gender usually assume that one's gender identi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ouija: Encyclopedia Ii - Ouija - Etymology
The term "Ouija" is derived from the French "oui" (for "yes") and the German "ja" (for "yes"). An alternative story suggests the name was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God And Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - God And Gender - Jewish Views Of God And Gender
In regard to translating Hebrew names of God into English, most Orthodox Jews and many Conservative Jews hold that it is wrong to use Eng...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gender Groups: Social Studies Dictionary - Gender Groups
Definition and meaning of Gender Groups   Gender Groups - [Sociology] The female sex differs from the male sex biologically. O...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gender Groups: Social Studies Dictionary - Gender Groups
Definition and meaning of Gender Groups   Gender Groups - [Sociology] The female sex differs from the male sex biologically. O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Etymology
Redneck - Possible Scots-Irish Etymology. The word redneck was first cited in Scotland. In Scotland, the National Covenant and The Sole...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Disputed Issues
There are a wide range of disputed issues in the debate over 'non-sexist language'. Are there inherently sexist language forms, and if so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christ: Encyclopedia Ii - Christ - Full Etymology
The spelling Christ in English dates from the 17th century, when, in the spirit of the enlightenment, spellings of certain words were cha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Identity: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Identity - Problems - Gender Identity And Sex
Some people do not believe that their gender identity corresponds to their biological sex, namely transgender people, including transsexu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tsar: Encyclopedia Ii - Tsar - Etymology And Spelling
The word tsar is derived from the Latin title Caesar by way of the Old Slavonic tsesar (цесарь). The word is cognate with German Ka...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tsar: Encyclopedia Ii - Tsar - Etymology And Spelling
The word tsar is derived from the Latin title Caesar by way of the Old Slavonic tsesar (цесарь). The word is cognate with German Ka...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Etymology
The etymology of fuck has given rise to a great deal of speculation, which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Changing Roles
Gender role is composed of several elements. A person's gender role can be expressed through clothing, behaviour, choice of work, persona...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Etymology Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Etymology Of India - Aryavarta
Aryavarta is yet another name which refers to India. This is probably the oldest one but not much in common use these days. In ancient te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Papyrus: Encyclopedia Ii - Papyrus - Etymology
The English word papyrus derives, via Latin, from Greek πάπυρος papuros. It is interesting to note that Greek has a second word fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Common Positions
Views among advocates of gender-neutral language are spread over a wide range, from passionate argumentation in favour, to consistent use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Pronoun: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Pronoun - Other Languages
Gender-neutral pronoun - Modern Chinese. There is no gender distinction in pronouns in the spoken language: The pronoun 他 (tā) means...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God And Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - God And Gender - Christian Views Of God And Gender
In Christianity, one Person of the Trinity, the Son, is believed to have become incarnate as a human male. Most Christians believe that t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Usage History
Fuck - Early usage. Its first known use as a verb meaning to have sexual intercourse is in "Flen flyys" (see above) some time before 15...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Etymology: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Etymology
etymology: The science of the origin of words and their development. The history of a word. See: Nirukta Vedanga, Sanskrit. (See als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Nouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Nouns - Gender
All Spanish nouns have one of two grammatical genders: masculine or feminine (mostly conventional, that is, arbitrarily assigned). Most a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homophobia: Encyclopedia Ii - Homophobia - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word homophobia in the meaning "fear or hatred of homosexuals and homosexuality" was firs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homophobia: Encyclopedia Ii - Homophobia - Etymology
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word homophobia in the meaning "fear or hatred of homosexuals and homosexuality" was firs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bloody: Encyclopedia Ii - Bloody - Etymology
Some say it may be derived from the phrase "by Our Lady", a sacrilegious invocation of the Virgin Mary. The abbreviated form "By'r Lady" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Usage History
Fuck - Early usage. Its first known use as a verb meaning to have sexual intercourse is in "Flen flyys" (see above) some time before 15...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God And Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - God And Gender - Translating The Names Of God Into English
There are a number of ways that one can translate the names of God into English from Hebrew. The Tetragrammaton is composed of the Hebrew...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hobbit: Encyclopedia Ii - Hobbit - Etymology
Hobbits are also called Halflings (in Sindarin, perian singular and periannath collective) due to their small stature. However, the term ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Grammatical Gender
Main article: grammatical gender In linguistics, grammatical gender is a type of inflection. We say that a language has grammatical gende...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Sex
Main article: Biological sex Gender can refer to the (biological) condition of being male or female, applied to humans, animals, plants, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Other Uses
Gender - Fasteners and connectors. In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each of a pair of mating connectors or fasten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Social Category
Since 1950 an increasing part of the academic literature, and of the public discourse uses gender for the perceived or projected (self-id...   » Read the article