maleness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The characteristic, state or condition of being male. countable,uncountable
    — They had always lived over the pub with its buzz of voices. Bar talk. When she was fifteen she had come home one night from the school concert just about closing time. Men were coming out on to the street and she could hear her father's voice calling time. She had heard this scene every night from upstairs and been afraid of it - the loud voices, the shouting, the maleness of it.

词形变化

malenesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Latin masculus
Vulgar Latin masclus
Old French maslebor.
Middle English male
English male
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English maleness
From male + -ness.
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