sexe

sexe (countable and uncountable, plural sexes)

1. Archaic form of sex.

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• exes

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛk.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɛk.se]

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sexe m (plural sexes)

1. gender
2. sex

• sexe anal

Middle French sexe, from Latin sexus.

• IPA^(key): /sɛks/

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• Rhymes: -ɛks
• Homophone: Seix

sexe m (plural sexes)

1. sex (the biological category)
2. (collective) sex (men or women)
3. (collective, archaic, with article) the (weaker) sex; womankind

   une personne du sexe ― a female person; a woman or girl

   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     C'est pour vous stupéfier l'entendement et provoquer des extases, chose d'ailleurs facile à obtenir chez les personnes du sexe, qui sont plus délicates que les autres.

     It is to stupefy the senses and to bring on ecstasies—a thing, moreover, very easy in persons of the weaker sex, who are more delicate than the other.

4. sex (the act)
5. sex organ

• → Bulgarian: секс (seks)
• → Turkish: seks

sexe (invariable)

1. pornographic
2. horny, sexually aroused
3. sexy

sexe

1. inflection of sexer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

sexe

1. alternative form of sax

sexe

1. inflection of sexar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈsekse]

sexe n pl

1. plural of sex

sexe

1. inflection of sexar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative