ETYM Old Fren. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), French genre, from Latin genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, from the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to Eng. kin. Related to Kin, Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus.
1. A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness.
2. Biological sexual identity: male, female, asexual, etc.
3. That part of sexual identity that is determined by culture and surroundings; masculine or feminine behaviors.
In grammar, one of the categories into which nouns are divided in many languages, such as masculine, feminine, and neuter (as in Latin, German, and Russian), masculine and feminine (as in French, Italian, and Spanish), or animate and inanimate (as in some Native American languages). + prikaži više

ETYM French See Gender.
(French) kind; style; realistic painting of everyday scenes.1. A class of artistic endeavor having a characteristic form or technique.
2. A kind of literary or artistic work.
A particular kind of work within an art form, differentiated by its structure, content, or style. For instance, the novel is a literary genre and the historical novel is a genre of the novel. The Western is a genre of film, and the symphonic poem is a musical genre.
It is also a term specifically applied to paintings which depict familiar scenes of everyday life. An early master of genre is Peter Brueghel the Elder; and the peasant life of the Netherlands inspired further examples in the paintings of Teniers and Brouwer. Peasant life is also represented in 17th century France by the brothers Le Nain. The Netherlands provide a wealth of genre pictures of burgher life in the works of Vermeer, de Hooch, Metsu, Ter Borch, Jan Steen, and others. Chardin presents Parisian middle-class life in the 18th century; Hogarth extends genre into a cross-section of society, morally analyzed. Various categories are found in English art; rustic, anecdotal and humorous, and animal. Paintings of Parisian life by Manet, Renoir, and Degas demonstrate that genre is not necessarily inferior in beauty or quality to pictures with more elevated subject matter. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin, birth, race, kind, sort.
(pl. genera) class; kind; Biology, category between family and species.
(Irregular plural: genera).
1. A general kind of something.
2. (Biology) Taxonomic group containing one or more species.
Group of species with many characteristics in common.
Thus all doglike species (including dogs, wolves, and jackals) belong to the genus Canis (Latin “dog”). Species of the same genus are thought to be descended from a common ancestor species. Related genera are grouped into families. + prikaži više

A kind of person.

ETYM Old Eng. kinde, cunde, as. cynd. Related to Kind.
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; SYN. sort, form, variety.

1. A person of a particular character or nature
2. An approximate definition or example

ETYM Old Eng. stile, French style, Of. also stile, Latin stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to Eng. stick.
(Homonym: stile).
1. A particular kind (as to appearance).
2. A slender bristlelike or tubular process.
3. The narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma.
In flowers, the part of the carpel bearing the stigma at its tip. In some flowers it is very short or completely lacking, while in others it may be long and slender, positioning the stigma in the most effective place to receive the pollen.
Usually the style withers after fertilization but in certain species, such as rock clematis Clematis verticillaris, it develops into a long feathery plume that aids dispersal of the fruit.
Ancient writing instrument with one sharp and one blunt end; Botany stalklike outgrowth of ovary bearing stigma. + prikaži više

ETYM French type; cf. Italian tipo, from Latin typus a figure, image, a form, type, character; cf. Skr. tup to hurt.
1. A subdivision of a particular kind of thing; SYN. kind, sort, ilk, species.
2. Printed characters.
3. A small block of metal bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper.
4. All of the tokens of the same symbol.
5. (Biology) The taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon. + prikaži više