🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Identità di genere

Pronunciation / Transliteration: iden'tita di 'dʒɛneɾe

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Gender-Identity/ˈdʒɛn.dər aɪˈdɛn.tɪ.ti/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La sua identità di genere è femminile."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person's deeply held sense of their gender, which may be different from the sex they were assigned at birth.

    "Her gender identity is female, although she was assigned male at birth."
  2. 2

    The social and cultural roles associated with being male or female, as perceived by the individual.

    "His gender identity influences how he interacts with society."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'gender' originates from the Latin word 'genus', meaning 'kind' or 'type', which evolved through Middle English. 'Identity' comes from the Latin 'identitas', meaning 'the same', which has been used in English since the late 14th century. The combination of these terms reflects the modern understanding of personal identification with a particular gender, emerging prominently in the late 20th century.

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