gender

Meanings

Class; kind.
A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
Sex .
Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis.
Synonym of voice
The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).

To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
To engender.
To breed.

From Middle English gendre, gender (see also gendres), from Middle French gendre, genre, from Latin genus ("kind, sort"). genre, genus, and kin. The verb developed after the noun.
From Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.

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