Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

femino-

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: femi-no-
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

prefix

Pertaining to feminism or to women generally.

Example Sentences

"Appropriating elements from Max Stirner, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Havelock Ellis, Henri Bergson, and Edward Carpenter, she set forth an unprecedented egoistic strain of femino-anarchism."
"Further, other women relieved of family caring roles by the availability of the public services, enter other parts of the labour force. This leads to a kind of femino-multiplier of job creation."
"Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance is contextualised within an intersectional framework of feminist and postcolonial lens that is recent, gender-focused and politically informed; as such, closely relevant to the newly-emerging, and shifting, femino-political concerns of the contemporary Arab region."

Etymology

Latin femina (“woman”) with -o-.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: femina

Questions

What does femino- mean?: Pertaining to feminism or to women generally.
Where does femino- come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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