Etymology of the English word androgynous
the English word
androgynoususing the English suffix
-ousderived from the Latin suffix
-osusderived from the English word
androgynederived from the Old French word
androgynederived from the Latin word
androgynederived from the Greek word
androgunos, ἀνδρόγυνος
derived from the Greek word
gune, γυνή (woman; a woman; specially, a wife)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*gʷen-using the Greek prefix
andro-derived from the Greek word
aner, ἀνήρ (a man (properly as an individual male))
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*ner-derived from the Latin word
androgynus (hermaphrodite, person of indeterminate sex)
derived from the Greek word
androgunos, ἀνδρόγυνος
derived from the Greek word
gune, γυνή (woman; a woman; specially, a wife)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*gʷen-using the Greek prefix
andro-derived from the Greek word
aner, ἀνήρ (a man (properly as an individual male))
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*ner-Cognates
Dutch
androgyn, French
androgyne, German
androgyn, Norwegian
androgyn, Swedish
androgynUsage
Word found in Modern English
