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androgynen.adj. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin androgynus; French androgyne. Etymology: Originally < classical Latin androgynus person of indeterminate sex, hermaphrodite (see below); in later use reinforced by Middle French, French androgyne (noun) hermaphrodite (1555), (adjective) (of a plant) having flowers of both sexes (1768 in the passage translated in quot. 1770 at sense B.), having a double nature (1831; earlier in Middle French designating a composite metal (14th cent.)), (of a person) having characteristics of both sexes (1840) < classical Latin androgynus person of indeterminate sex, hermaphrodite (in post-classical Latin also as adjective, 6th cent.) < ancient Greek ἀνδρόγυνος hermaphrodite, effeminate man < ἀνδρο- andro- comb. form + γυνή woman, female (see -gynous comb. form). With use as adjective compare earlier androgynous adj. and androgynal adj.Compare Catalan androgin (1696), Spanish androgino (c1275 as androgeno ), Portuguese androgino (1550), Italian androgino (14th cent.), all originally adjectives, but also used as nouns. In the early forms androginem, androȝinem after a variant post-classical Latin accusative singular form androgynem; compare the variant post-classical Latin nominative singular form androgyne (10th cent. or earlier). With the form androgyna compare classical Latin Androgynē, nickname for a masculine woman, and also post-classical Latin androgyna, feminine parallel to the classical Latin masculine form cited above (9th cent. in isolated use). A. n. 1. the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes > person or animal OE tr. (Vitell.) v. 250 Gif þæt wif ana hyt drinceþ, ðonne cenð heo androginem [?a1200 Harl. 6258B androȝinem]; ne byþ þæt to nahte, naþer ne wer ne wif. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 195 Such oon is i-cleped hermofrodita and was somtyme i-cleped androgumus [?a1475 anon. tr. androdinos; L. androgynos]. 1552 R. Huloet Androgine, whiche bene people of both kyndes, both man and woman. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. vii. iii. 157 Children of both sexes, whom we cal Hermophrodites. In old time they were knowne by the name of Androgyni. a1676 M. Hale (1677) 316 As if Adam had been Androgyna, or one double Person..consisting of both Sexes. 1741 D. Hume I. vi. 68 Where this Order is strictly observ'd, the Androgyne is perfectly restor'd, and the human Race enjoy the same happiness as in their primæval state. 1795 T. Maurice I. i. i. 66 The fabulous tales of the Androgynes..warring against the gods. 1829 J. Miller I. 217 It is among brute forms only you have to choose for shapes to the inhabitants of your new worlds. You may indeed have men monkies or androgynes, or Tom Paine's men with wings. 1880 17 Jan. 1/1 The unmistakable myth of the Androgyne, found in all the old mythologies. 1920 54 220 Different names..have been used in describing these cases, such as intersexes, sex intergrades, hermaphrodites, gynanders, androgynes.., etc. 2002 N. Drury 138/2 In mysticism and occultism, the symbol of the human hermaphrodite or androgyne has special significance because it represents the fusion of opposite polarities. 2012 S. Shaikh v. 169 The male Adam..is what remains after Eve is removed from the original androgyne. the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > characterized by parts > characterized by stamens, pistils, or sex of flowers ?1796–8 IV. 218/2 Such as are polygamous..By androgynes and males; five genera; viz. Anthospermum, Arctopus, Panax, Chrysitrix, and Stilbe. ?a1808 XIV. 115 We must recollect, that the flowers produced by this class of plants [sc. Monoecia] are not hermaphrodites, but androgynes. 1837 W. Whewell III. xvii. iv. 416 Zaluzian, a botanist who lived at the end of the 15th century, says that the greater part of the species of plants are androgynes, that is, have the properties of the male and of the female united in the same plant. 1993 L. Schiebinger i. 21 As one eighteenth-century botanist put it, there are two sexes, but three kinds of flowers: male, female, and hermaphrodites or, as they were sometimes called, androgynes. the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration > person the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > androgyny > person 1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze 173 These vile and stinking androgynes [Fr. androgynes], that is to say, these men-women, with their curled locks. 1602 T. North tr. S. Goulart 31 He..began to gall him with iniurious words, calling him Androgyne (as much to say, as womanish man). 1706 (new ed.) Androgynus..a Scrat or Will Jill, an effeminate Fellow. 1742 N. Bailey Androgyne, an Hermaphrodite, or one..that is castrated and effeminate. 1888 28 Apr. 13/5 ‘It is the literature of the decadence, of course,’ said Wemyss; ‘an emasculated type, product of short-haired women and long-haired men, gynanders and androgynes.’ 1895 29 824 The number of viragints, gynandrists, androgynes, and other female psycho-sexual aberrants is very large indeed. 1922 ‘R. Werther’ iii. ii. 151 Few refined androgynes would be so rash as to betray their legal name in the Underworld. 1973 A. Rich 19 I am the androgyne I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language. 1979 9 July 76/3 Her painting..reveals the artist..as a scarred and wounded androgyne, his hands folded prissily in his lap. 1993 12 Jan. 31/2 A loudmouthed Jamaican androgyne..is..twisting his hips with the grace of a Yoruban priestess. 2017 (Nexis) 9 Jan. It was also an homage, she said, to fellow androgyne David Bowie, whose 70th birthday would have been Sunday. 1962 8 Mar. 415/2 The symbolists' fascination with the unnatural in Byzantium—in a taste for the androgyne and the perverse. 2005 M. J. Horswell 3 In Spanish culture, the feminine and the androgyne were contemptible. B. adj.the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > having characteristics of both sexes the world > life > sex and gender > [adjective] > androgynous 1765 tr. C. Linnaeus I. (Regnum Veg.) 7/3 The Plants, which have only female Flowers, are call'd Female Plants...Androgyne, are those which have male and female Flowers. 1848 15 703/2 The planets being androgyne, like plants, copulent avec eux-memes and with the other planets. 1958 J. G. Bennett v. i. 486 He loved them because they had beautiful curls, and large eyes,..and an androgyne charm of manner and bearing. 1976 45 772 Investigations on another androgyne species from the pedigree of Mollusca led to the discovery of proteinase inhibitors in snails. 2008 (Nexis) 1 Nov. A cropped hair girl (actually she was chicly androgyne) wearing the Robin Hood hat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.adj.OE |
