male – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of male

Adjective: male

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativemaler
Superlativemalest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore male
Superlativemost male

Sample Sentences

  • male writers
  • the leading male and female singers
  • a male bird feeding a seed to a female
  • in bee colonies, all drones are male
  • intersex male patients
  • We got the hang of [caring for a baby], Kate and I, with some quiet, surprising guidance from a gentle male nurse whose touching lack of intrusion was so instinctive as to seem part of the pattern. [1995, Gill Van Hasselt, Childbirth: Your Choices for Managing Pain, Taylor Pub, →ISBN:]
  • Whereas many other trans male vloggers use the videos to assert a conventionally recognizable masculinity through sculpting and carrying their bodies as well as dressing and talking in masculine-coded ways, Carson explores and plays with ways of expressing femininity within (trans) maleness. [2016, Tobias Raun, Out Online, →ISBN:]
  • stereotypically male interests
  • an insect with typically male coloration
  • A bright light was shone in her eye and then she heard a kind, male voice who she figured must be Dr. Smith. “Yes, let her rest now, but keep an eye on her blood pressure and her pulse. Check her about every 15 or 20 minutes. Call me if any problem occurs.” [2006, Bonnie Roberts, Bruises on the Heart, →ISBN, page 118:]
  • More than that, we cannot find the same dynamics within female career trajectories as in the other two country groups, because the time-structure of female and male careers already shows great similarity within the older generation of elites. In addition, the pattern of the relation between female and male careers remains the same over time. [2004, Mino Vianello, Gwen Moore, Women and Men in Political and Business Elites: A Comparative Study, →ISBN:]
  • the male chromosome
  • like testes, ovaries also produce testosterone and some other male hormones
  • The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate. [2012, Naomi McIlwraith, Kiyâm: Poems, →ISBN, page 43:]
  • If you are describing a female noun, you must make the adjective feminine by adding an 'e'. If you describe a male noun, you add an 'er'. For neutral nouns you add an 'es'. [2012, Sinéad Leleu, Michaela Greck-Ismair, German Pen Pals Made Easy KS3:]
  • Furthermore, male bacteria with fi + R factors, which inhibit the function of F (fi fertility inhibition) (Watanabe et al., 1964a), cannot form specific cell pairs at high frequencies. On the contrary, the formation of[…] [1967, Symposium on Infectious Multiple Drug Resistance: Genetics, Molecular Nature, and Clinical Implications of R Factors, May 25, 1967, page 7:]
  • Male bacteria having the sex factor, also known as the F or "fertility" factor, are termed P if the sex factor exists extrachromosomally. F+ bacteria can only conjugate with F, the female counterparts, which do not possess the F [factor]. [(Can we date this quote?), The genetics problem solver, Research & Education Assoc., →ISBN, page 443:]
  • Male adapter connects female pipe threads to polyethylene cold-water pipe; [...] female flare coupling connects male pipe threads to flared copper or plastic; [1982, Popular Science, page 119:]

Adjectives inflected like male

serene, severe, secure, sedate, wheelie, simple, complete, fulsome, sprightlie, discrete, plosive, bizarre, brusque, brittle, wholesome, sincere, shystie, loveable, prophane, terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Latin mās
3. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
4. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
5. Proto-Italic *-elos
6. Proto-Italic *-kelos
7. Latin -culus
8. Latin masculus
9. Vulgar Latin masclus
10. Old French maslebor.
11. Middle English male
12. English male
13. From Middle English male, borrowed from Old French malle, masle (Modern French mâle), from Latin masculus (“masculine, a male”), diminutive of mās (“male, masculine”). Doublet of macho. Displaced native Old English wǣpned (“male”, literally “weaponed”). See: Latin Adjectives 'masculus'.