male (belonging or referring to the sex having the smaller gametes) · macho; manly · male (of instruments or tools: designed to fit into or penetrate a “female” counterpart)
çekim: çoğul machos
zıt: cagão, covarde, mulherzinha, marica, bicha
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese macho, from Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”), from mās (“male, man”), -culus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of másculo.
male, masculine · manly, virile · Used of the larger and coarser varieties of plants or other natural products
çekim: çoğul masculī · tamlayan masculī
köken: Etymology tree Latin mās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Latin masculus From mās ("male") + -culus (diminutive ending).
köken: Attested from the 13th century. From Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”). Cognate with Spanish macho and Portuguese macho.