masculine

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable

   A masculine cadence.

Common collocations

• masculine rhyme Adjective + noun

From Middle English masculyne, masculyn, from Old French masculin, from Latin masculīnus, diminutive of masculus (“male, manly”), itself a diminutive of mās (“male”). Displaced native Old English werlīċ (literally “manly”).

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