femele
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Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French femele, from Latin fēmella. Some forms are influenced by male (“male”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]femele
- female (of feminine sex or gender)
- Used in extended reference to supposedly "female" gems, trees, plants, or astrological portents.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “fēmē̆l(e, -āl(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
[edit]femele (plural femeles)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “fēmē̆l(e, -āl(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]femele m (oblique and nominative feminine singular femele)
Declension
[edit]Declension of femele
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: femelle
- French: femelle
- → Middle English: femele, femaille, femal, female, femawle, femayll, femel, femelle, femmale, ffemale
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]femele
Categories:
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Latin
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English adjectives
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Astrology
- enm:Botany
- enm:Female
- enm:Geology
- enm:Female people
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French adjectives
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian non-lemma forms
- Romanian noun forms