English
mascularity
Mascularity comes from Latin masculus ‘male, masculine’, and goes back to mās.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmās‘male’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmasculus‘male, masculine’
- Englishearliest quotation 1854mascularity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmās‘male’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmasculus‘male, masculine’
- Englishearliest quotation 1854mascularity
Earliest quotation: 1854, Elisha Kent Kane, New York: Harper & Brothers: “To some the unmentionables might savor of mascularity; but…”
Formed from -ar + -ity
Linked words
through Latin mās ‘male’
married, marriage, marry, marital, 8 more
through Latin masculus ‘male, masculine’
Today it means
noun Synonym of masculinity.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mās / mascularity