"hermaphroditism" meaning in All languages combined

See hermaphroditism on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: hermaphroditisms [plural]
Etymology: hermaphrodite + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|hermaphrodite|ism}} hermaphrodite + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hermaphroditism (countable and uncountable, plural hermaphroditisms)
  1. (biology) Being able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphrodtism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequantial hermahprodtism or dichogamy). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology, Gender, Intersex Translations (state of having both male and female sexual organs): hermafroditisme [masculine] (Catalan), 雌雄間性 (Chinese Mandarin), 雌雄间性 (cíxióngjiānxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 雌雄同體 (Chinese Mandarin), 雌雄同体 (cíxióng tóng tǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), hermafroditisme [common-gender] (Danish), hermafrodisme [common-gender] (Danish), tvekønnethed [common-gender] (Danish), hermafroditisme [neuter] (Dutch), dusekseco (Esperanto), hermafroditismo (Esperanto), hermaphrodisme [masculine] (French), Hermaphroditismus [masculine] (German), Hermaphrodismus [masculine] (German), Zweigeschlechtlichkeit [feminine] (German), Zwittrigkeit [feminine] (German), Zwittertum [neuter] (German), 雌雄同体 (shiyūdōtai) (alt: しゆうどうたい) (Japanese), қосжыныстылық (qosjynystylyq) (Kazakh), 암수한몸 (amsuhanmom) (Korean), 자웅동체 (jaungdongche) (Korean), hermafrodittisme [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tvekjønnethet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hermafrodittisme [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), tvikjønn [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), hermafroditismo [masculine] (Portuguese), гермафродити́зм (germafroditízm) [masculine] (Russian), hermafroditismo [masculine] (Spanish), hermafroditism [common-gender] (Swedish), hermafrodism [common-gender] (Swedish), härmafrodit (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-hermaphroditism-en-noun-bbZjMek1 Disambiguation of Gender: 80 20 Disambiguation of Intersex: 65 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ism Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 67 33 Topics: biology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'state of having both male and female sexual organs': 93 7
  2. (dated, now offensive) Historically used to describe intersex people with intermediate sex characteristics and/or pseudohermaphroditism, now considered a slur Tags: countable, dated, offensive, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hermaphroditism-en-noun-2NtVbIiL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hermaphrodism, dichogamous, cosexual, intersex [noun], intersexuality Related terms: hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic, hermaphroditical, hermaphroditically, pseudohermaphroditism, intersex

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for hermaphroditism meaning in All languages combined (8.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hermaphrodite",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "hermaphrodite + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "hermaphrodite + -ism",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hermaphroditisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "hermaphroditism (countable and uncountable, plural hermaphroditisms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hermaphrodite"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hermaphroditic"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hermaphroditical"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hermaphroditically"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pseudohermaphroditism"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "intersex"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gender",
          "orig": "en:Gender",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "65 35",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Intersex",
          "orig": "en:Intersex",
          "parents": [
            "Gender",
            "LGBT",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Sexuality",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Sex",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Human",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Being able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphrodtism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequantial hermahprodtism or dichogamy)."
      ],
      "id": "en-hermaphroditism-en-noun-bbZjMek1",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "cosexuality",
          "cosexuality"
        ],
        [
          "dichogamy",
          "dichogamy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) Being able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphrodtism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequantial hermahprodtism or dichogamy)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hermafroditisme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "雌雄間性"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "cíxióngjiānxìng",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "雌雄间性"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "雌雄同體"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "cíxióng tóng tǐ",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "雌雄同体"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "hermafroditisme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "hermafrodisme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "tvekønnethed"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hermafroditisme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "dusekseco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "hermafroditismo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hermaphrodisme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Hermaphroditismus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Hermaphrodismus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Zweigeschlechtlichkeit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Zwittrigkeit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Zwittertum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "alt": "しゆうどうたい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shiyūdōtai",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "雌雄同体"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "qosjynystylyq",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "қосжыныстылық"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "amsuhanmom",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "암수한몸"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jaungdongche",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "자웅동체"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hermafrodittisme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tvekjønnethet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hermafrodittisme"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "tvikjønn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hermafroditismo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "germafroditízm",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "гермафродити́зм"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "hermafroditismo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "hermafroditism"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "hermafrodism"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
          "word": "härmafrodit"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Historically used to describe intersex people with intermediate sex characteristics and/or pseudohermaphroditism, now considered a slur"
      ],
      "id": "en-hermaphroditism-en-noun-2NtVbIiL",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, now offensive) Historically used to describe intersex people with intermediate sex characteristics and/or pseudohermaphroditism, now considered a slur"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "dated",
        "offensive",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hermaphrodism"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "dichogamous"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "cosexual"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "intersex"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "intersexuality"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "hermaphroditism"
  ],
  "word": "hermaphroditism"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ism",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Gender",
    "en:Intersex"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hermaphrodite",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "hermaphrodite + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "hermaphrodite + -ism",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hermaphroditisms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "hermaphroditism (countable and uncountable, plural hermaphroditisms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hermaphrodite"
    },
    {
      "word": "hermaphroditic"
    },
    {
      "word": "hermaphroditical"
    },
    {
      "word": "hermaphroditically"
    },
    {
      "word": "pseudohermaphroditism"
    },
    {
      "word": "intersex"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Biology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Being able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphrodtism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequantial hermahprodtism or dichogamy)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "cosexuality",
          "cosexuality"
        ],
        [
          "dichogamy",
          "dichogamy#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) Being able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphrodtism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequantial hermahprodtism or dichogamy)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English offensive terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Historically used to describe intersex people with intermediate sex characteristics and/or pseudohermaphroditism, now considered a slur"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, now offensive) Historically used to describe intersex people with intermediate sex characteristics and/or pseudohermaphroditism, now considered a slur"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "dated",
        "offensive",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hermaphrodism"
    },
    {
      "word": "dichogamous"
    },
    {
      "word": "cosexual"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "intersex"
    },
    {
      "word": "intersexuality"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hermafroditisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "雌雄間性"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cíxióngjiānxìng",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "雌雄间性"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "雌雄同體"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cíxióng tóng tǐ",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "雌雄同体"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hermafroditisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hermafrodisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tvekønnethed"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hermafroditisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "dusekseco"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "hermafroditismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hermaphrodisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hermaphroditismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hermaphrodismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zweigeschlechtlichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zwittrigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Zwittertum"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しゆうどうたい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shiyūdōtai",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "雌雄同体"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "qosjynystylyq",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "қосжыныстылық"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "amsuhanmom",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "암수한몸"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jaungdongche",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "자웅동체"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hermafrodittisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tvekjønnethet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hermafrodittisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tvikjønn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hermafroditismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "germafroditízm",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гермафродити́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hermafroditismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hermafroditism"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hermafrodism"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "state of having both male and female sexual organs",
      "word": "härmafrodit"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "hermaphroditism"
  ],
  "word": "hermaphroditism"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.