Etymograph

English

genre-bender

From genre + bender, on the pattern of gender bender.

A compound of genre + bender

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, beget’

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Proto-Italic *genos

Latin genus ‘birth, origin, lineage, descent’

Old French gen(d)re

French genre ‘kind’

English genre

Today it means

noun A work of fiction characterized by subversion of generic tropes or fusion of disparate genres.

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

Etymograph / genre-bender