sex

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

subs.

P. γένος, τό, Ar. φῦλον, τό (Xen.).

The male sex: P. and V. οἱ ἄρσενες, τὸ ἄρσεν.

The female sex: P. and V. τὸ θῆλυ, P. θήλεια φύσις, ἡ, V. θῆλυς σπορά, ἡ, τὸ θῆλυ γένος.

Of the male sex, adj.: P. and V. ἄρσην.

Of the female sex: P. and V. θῆλυς, V. θηλύσπορος.

Great is your glory if you do not fall below the standart of your sex: P. τῆς . . . ὑπαρχούσης φύσεως μὴ χείροσι γενέσθαι ὑμῖν μεγάλη ἡ δόξα (Thuc. 2, 45).

Sparing neither age nor sex: see Thuc. 7, 29.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

sex: (also written VI., and in inscrr. SEXS; cf. Inscr. Orell. 3745), num. adj. cf. Sanscr. shash, Gr. ἕξ, Goth. saihs, Germ. sechs, Engl. six,
I six: sex minae, Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 21: dies, id. Cist. 2, 1, 13: menses, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 46; id. Ad. 3, 3, 42: sex aut septem loca, Lucr. 4, 577: suffragia, Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39: sex et nonaginta, id. ib.: sex et quinquaginta milia passuum, id. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: decem et sex milia peditum armati, Liv. 37, 40: inter Bis sex famulas (= duodecim), Ov. M. 4, 220; Verg. A. 9, 272: sex septem, six or seven, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 41; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 58; v. septem, sex primi, sexprimi.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

sex,⁸ ind. (ἕξ), six : Cic. Rep. 2, 39 || sex, septem, six ou sept : Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 58.