androgyne

noun

an·​dro·​gyne ˈan-drə-ˌjīn 

: one that is androgynous

Examples of androgyne in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Ancient authors used many different words for these people, such as hermaphrodite, eunuch, androgyne, tribad, malthakos and others. — Ky Merkley, The Conversation, 15 June 2026

He’s also drawn in by a mysterious, androgyne orphan (Isla Johnston). — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025

With the cessation of lactation the female reenters somer and becomes once more a perfect androgyne. — Harold Bloom, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2020

Xerxes is depicted as an androgyne sybarite, his brooding eyes rimmed with kohl, his lips, nose, and ears all pierced with rings linked by delicate golden chains. — Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, "individual having organs of both sexes," borrowed from Latin androgynus "person of indeterminate sex, hermaphrodite," borrowed from Greek andrógynos "hermaphrodite" — more at androgynous

Note: There are two isolated earlier attestations of the word, as androgumus in John of Trevisa's late fourteenth-century translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, and as androȝinem (apparently accusative) in the late Old English Medicina de quadrupedibus.

First Known Use

12th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for androgyne

• mahajan

Medical Definition

androgyne

noun

an·​dro·​gyne ˈan-drə-ˌjīn 

: an androgynous individual

also : hermaphrodite