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Examples of androgyne in a Sentence
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Word History
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, "individual having organs of both sexes," borrowed from Latin androgynus "person of indeterminate sex, hermaphrodite," borrowed from Greek andrógynos "hermaphrodite" — more at androgynous
Note: There are two isolated earlier attestations of the word, as androgumus in John of Trevisa's late fourteenth-century translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, and as androȝinem (apparently accusative) in the late Old English Medicina de quadrupedibus.
12th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Androgyne.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/androgyne. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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