genro

From Japanese 元老.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛnɹəʊ/

genro (plural genros or genro)

1. (historical) A body of elder statesmen of Japan, formerly used as informal advisors to the Emperor.
   • 2007: That last part was in line with the genro Prince Saionji's advice to the Emperor: advice which the Emperor ignored. — Clive James, Cultural Amnesia (Picador 2007, p. 814)

• Egnor, Goren, Groen, Negro, Norge, Rogen, ergon, goner, grone, negro, ornge, reong

Ultimately from Latin genus, possibly through French genre. The feminist and LGBT sense is a semantic loan from English gender. Doublet of ĝenro.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡenro/
• Hyphenation: gen‧ro
• Rhymes: -enro

genro (accusative singular genron, plural genroj, accusative plural genrojn)

1. (grammar) gender
2. genus
3. (feminism, LGBT, neologism, proscribed) gender
   • 2017, Euleax E. G. de Lima Pereira, “Genro kaj cisgenra normigo [Gender and cisgender normalization]”, in Kontakto, number 2, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, ISSN 0023-3692, page 9:

     Cetere, genro ne estas duuma.

     Moreover, gender is not binary.

• sekso (“gender, sex”)

Same as genero.

genro (plural genri)

1. gender, grammatical sex

• transgenro (“transgender”)
• transgenra (“transgender”)

• genero (“genus”)

From Old Portuguese genrro, *gẽero (“son-in-law”), from Latin gener, generum (“son-in-law”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵm̥ros, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵem-.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒẽ.ʁu/
• Hyphenation: gen‧ro

genro m (plural genros, feminine nora, feminine plural noras)

1. son-in-law