hermaphrodite - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Hermaphroditus, the mythical son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who merged bodies with a naiad, thereafter having both male and female qualities.
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɝˈmæfɹədaɪt/
hermaphrodite (plural hermaphrodites)
- (dated, now offensive) A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics. [from late 14th c.]
- (biology) Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
An earthworm is a hermaphrodite.
- (biology) Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
- A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
- (nautical) A hermaphrodite brig.
- A farm wagon convertible to multiple purposes.
- (World War I military, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
- Like many terms that start with a non-silent h but have emphasis on their second syllable, some people precede hermaphrodite with an, others with a.
- Intersex is now the preferred term for humans.[1] The term hermaphrodite when used for intersex people is now considered a slur.[1][2][3]
- Compare androgyne and genderqueer.
- maphrodite, morphodite, mophrodite (slang)
- androgyne
- gynandromorph
- dichogamous
- cosexual
- intersex (noun)
organism having both male and female gonads
- Albanian: deledash (sq)
- Arabic: خُنْثَى f (ḵunṯā)
- Aramaic: אנדרוגינוס m (androginos)
- Belarusian: гермафрады́т m (hjermafradýt)
- Breton: divreizhadezh
- Bulgarian: хермафродит (bg) m (hermafrodit)
- Burmese: ဒွိလိင် (my) (dwi.ling)
- Catalan: hermafrodita (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: hermafrodit (cs) m, obojetník (cs) m
- Danish: hermafrodit (da) c
- Dutch: hermafrodiet (nl) m
- Esperanto: hermafrodito, androgino, ambaŭseksulo
- Estonian: hermafrodiit
- Finnish: hermafrodiitti (fi)
- French: hermaphrodite (fr) m or f
- German: Zwitter (de); (formal also) Hermaphrodit (de) m, Hermaphroditin f; (rarely also) Zweigeschlecht n
- Greek: ερμαφρόδιτος (el) m (ermafróditos), ερμαφρόδιτη (el) f (ermafróditi)
- Ancient: ἑρμαφρόδιτος m (hermaphróditos), ἀνδρόγυνος m or f (andrógunos)
- Hebrew: הרמפרודיט (he) (hermafrodit)
- Hindi: हिजड़ा (hi) (hijṛā)
- Icelandic: tvíkynjungur m
- Irish: idirghnéas m, cadar m
- Italian: ermafrodito (it) m
- Japanese: 双成り (ふたなり, futanari), 雌雄同体 (ja) (shiyuudoutai)
- Kazakh: қызтеке (qyzteke)
- Khmer: ខ្ទើយ (km) (ktəəy)
- Lao: ກະເທີຍ (lo) (ka thœ̄i)
- Lithuanian: hermafroditas m
- Malay: khunsa
- Navajo: nádleeh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hermafroditt m
- Nynorsk: hermafroditt m, tvitole f, tvitoling m
- Old English: bǣddel, wǣpenwīfestre f, wæpnwifestre
- Old Ruthenian: гермафродитъ (hermafrodit)
- Polish: hermafrodyta (pl) m, obojnak (pl) m
- Portuguese: hermafrodita (pt) m or f, andrógino (pt) m, dígamo (pt) m
- Romanian: hermafrodit (ro) m
- Russian: гермафроди́т (ru) m (germafrodít)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: hermafrodit (sh), dvopolac m, dvopolnik m
- Spanish: hermafrodita (es) m or f
- Sundanese: wandu (su)
- Swedish: hermafrodit (sv) c
- Tagalog: balakihan
- Thai: แต๋ว (th) (dtɛ̌o)
- Turkish: erdişi (tr), hermafrodit (tr), erselik (tr), hünsa (tr)
- Ukrainian: гермафроди́т m (hermafrodýt)
- Urdu: ہیجڑا (hijṛa)
- Vietnamese: người ái nam ái nữ
- Volapük: (♂♀) härmafroditan, (♂) hihärmafroditan (♀) jihärmafroditan
person or thing possessing two opposing qualities
hermaphrodite (not comparable)
- (dated, now offensive) Having ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
- (biology) Having both ovaries and testes or both stamens and pistils.
- Combining two opposing qualities.
having both male and female gonads
- Arabic: خُنْثَوِيّ (ḵunṯawiyy)
- Bulgarian: хермафродитен (hermafroditen)
- Chinese:
- Danish: tvekønnet, hermafroditisk
- Dutch: hermafrodiet (nl), hermafrodiete (nl)
- Esperanto: hermafrodita (eo)
- Faroese: tvíkynjaður
- Finnish: hermafrodiitti (fi)
- French: hermaphrodite (fr) m or f, bisexué (fr) m, bisexuée (fr) f
- German: hermaphroditisch (de), zwittrig (de)
- Icelandic: tvítóla, tvítólaður, tvítóli m
- Irish: idirghnéasach m
- Japanese: 半陰陽の (ja) (はんいんようの, han'in'yō no), 雌雄同体の (ja) (しゆうどうたいの, shiyūdōtai no)
- Malay: hermafrodit (animal, plant), khunsa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hermafrodittisk, tvekjønna, tvekjønnet
- Nynorsk: hermafrodittisk, tvikjønna, tvekjønna, tvitola
- Polish: hermafrodyczny
- Portuguese: hermafrodita (pt) m or f
- Romanian: hermafrodit (ro)
- Russian: гермафроди́тный (ru) (germafrodítnyj)
- Spanish: hermafrodita (es)
- Volapük: (of the condition) härmafroditik, (♂♀, of the person) härmafroditanik, (♂) hihärmafroditanik (♀) jihärmafroditanik
combining two opposing qualities
- berdache, two-spirit (two-spirits were formerly often called hermaphrodites)
- genderqueer
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 InterACT, 2021. What is intersex? https://interactadvocates.org/faq/ Accessed 2024-03-10
- ^ The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, 2002. Being an Ally to Intersex People. https://www.idahobit.org.au/allyship/tips-to-be-an-intersex-ally Accessed 2024-03-12.
- ^ Gender construction kit, year unknown. Slurs. https://genderkit.org.uk/slurs/ Accessed 2024-03-13
hermaphrodite (plural hermaphrodites)
hermaphrodite m or f by sense (plural hermaphrodites)
- “hermaphrodite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.