"common gender" meaning in All languages combined

See common gender on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: common genders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} common gender (countable and uncountable, plural common genders)
  1. (linguistics) A grammatical gender in some languages, formed by the historical merging of masculine and feminine genders. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (a grammatical gender): агу́льны род (ahúlʹny rod) [masculine] (Belarusian), အနပုလ္လိင် (a.na.pulling) (Burmese), ဒွိလိင် (dwi.ling) (Burmese), 通性 (tōngxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), fælleskøn [neuter] (Danish), zijdig [neuter] (Dutch), de-geslacht [neuter] (Dutch), samkyn [neuter] (Faroese), yhteinen suku (Finnish), yleinen suku (Finnish), en-suku (english: Scandinavian languages) (Finnish), genre commun [masculine] (French), Genus commune [neuter] (German), Utrum [neuter] (German), κοινό γένος (koinó génos) [neuter] (Greek), fælleskønni (Greenlandic), közös nem (Hungarian), samkyn [neuter] (Icelandic), genus commune [neuter] (Latin), bendroji giminė [feminine] (Lithuanian), felleskjønn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), felleskjønn [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), rodzaj wspólny [masculine] (Polish), о́бщий род (óbščij rod) [masculine] (Russian), género común [masculine] (Spanish), utrum [neuter] (Swedish), n-genus [neuter] (Swedish), спі́льний рід (spílʹnyj rid) [masculine] (Ukrainian), nerimaki (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-common_gender-en-noun-meyZDTtQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'a grammatical gender': 80 20
  2. (grammar) In some languages (e.g. Latin, Lithuanian), a gender applied to a noun that can be either masculine or feminine. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Grammar Translations (gender applied to a noun that is either masculine or feminine in grammatically gendered languages): genus commune [neuter] (Latin), bendroji giminė [feminine] (Lithuanian)
    Sense id: en-common_gender-en-noun-lpzxy3-b Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'gender applied to a noun that is either masculine or feminine in grammatically gendered languages': 32 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms: masculine, feminine, neuter

Inflected forms

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