Etymograph

English

endosex

From endo- + sex.

Formed from endo- + sex

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm ‘inside’

Proto-Hellenic *éndon

Ancient Greek ἔνδον ‘inner’

English endo-

Latin sexus ‘gender; males or females’

Old French sexe ‘genitals; gender’

Middle English sexe ‘sex, gender’

English sex

The story

Coined as a counterpart to intersex by Heike Bödeker in 2000 (in English, following Bödeker's coinage of German endosexuell in 1999).

Today it means

adj Not intersex; born with sex characteristics that are considered typically male or female.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / endosex