gendre

Inherited from Latin gener.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒɛn.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɾe]

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gendre m (plural gendres)

1. son-in-law

• jove
• nora

• “gendre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “gendre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “gendre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gendre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old French gendre, inherited from Latin gener.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃dʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃dʁ
• Homophone: gendres

gendre m (plural gendres)

1. son-in-law

   Synonym: beau-fils

• “gendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• gender, gendir, gendyr

Borrowed from Old French gendre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛndrə/, /-ər/

gendre (plural gendres)

1. type, class
2. race, nation
3. gender (grammatical)
4. voice (grammatical)

• The usual Middle English terms for "sex, gender" are kyn, kynde, and sex.

• English: gender (see there for further descendants)

• “ǧendre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒen(d)rə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒan(d)rə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈʒan(d)rə/

From Latin gener.

• gentdre, genre, jandre, janre, ganre

gendre oblique singular, m (oblique plural gendres, nominative singular gendres, nominative plural gendre)

1. son-in-law

• Bourguignon: genre, zinre, zindre, zenre, zainre
• Champenois: genre
• French: gendre
• Lorrain: genre, dgenre, jar

• “gendre1”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

Borrowed from Latin genere. Perhaps adapted in form to etymology 1.

• genre⁠, genrre

gendre oblique singular, m (oblique plural gendres, nominative singular gendres, nominative plural gendre)

1. type, kind, -kind (as in humaine gendre, gendre mortel "mankind")
2. essence
3. race, ethnic group
4. sex (biological)
5. gender (grammatical)

• French: genre (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: genre
• → Middle English: gendre, gender, gendir, gendyr
  • English: gender (see there for further descendants)

• “gendre2”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.