different between genre vs caste

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (génos)), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os. Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /(d)??n.??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /(d)??n.??/, /(d)??n.??/
• (nonstandard, francophonic) IPA^(key): /d???n?/

Noun

genre (plural genres)

1. A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

   The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.

   The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

   • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (page 38)

     One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

Synonyms

• kind
• type
• class
• See also Thesaurus:class

Derived terms

Related terms

• genre fiction
• genre film
• gender
• general
• generate
• genus

Translations

Anagrams

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., green, neger, regen

Danish

Etymology

From French genre (“kind, style”), from Latin genus (“type, kind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??????]

Noun

genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)

1. genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n.r?/
• Hyphenation: gen?re

Noun

genre n (plural genres)

1. kind, type, genre

Anagrams

• enger, neger, regen

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??enre/, [??e?nre?]
• Rhymes: -enre
• Syllabification: gen?re

Noun

genre

1. genre

Declension

Synonyms

• lajityyppi

French

Etymology

From Latin genus (compare stem of the genitive generis), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (génos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/
• Homophone: genres
• Hyphenation: genre

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. kind

2. style

3. (grammar) gender (of nouns)

4. (grammar) voice (of verbs)
5. gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc)

6. (biology) genus

7. look, type

8. (archaic, colloquial) the done thing

Derived terms

• BCBG, bon chic bon genre
• cisgenre, transgenre
• en tous genres
• en tout genre
• faire genre
• genre humain
• unique en son genre

Descendants

• ? English: genre
• ? Russian: ???? (žanr)
  • ? Kazakh: ???? (janr)

Particle

genre

1. (colloquial) like

   Je suis genre rarement enervé.

Further reading

• “genre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.

Anagrams

• gêner
• nègre
• règne, régné

Norman

Etymology

From Latin genus, generis, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os (compare Ancient Greek ????? (génos)).

Noun

genre m (plural genres)

1. (grammar, etc.) gender

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French genre

Noun

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)

1. a genre

Synonyms

• sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “genre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French genre.

Noun

genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)

1. a genre

Synonyms

• sjanger

References

• “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French genre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹?a??r/
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

genre c

1. a genre

Declension

Anagrams

• gener, green, neger

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), of uncertain origin. The OED derives it from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus.Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *???????????????????? (*kasts), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: käst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæst/
• Homophones: cast, karst (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

caste (plural castes)

1. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.

   Hyponyms: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
3. (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

Derived terms

• casteless

Translations

Anagrams

• Cates, Stace, cates, scate, sceat, taces

Dutch

Verb

caste

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of casten

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese casta, probably of Gothic and Germanic origin, or alternatively from a derivative of Latin castus.

Noun

caste f (plural castes)

1. caste (hereditary class)
2. class (social position)

References

• “caste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• casta

Etymology

Probably from Gothic *???????????????????? (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, *kast?n? (“to throw, cast”), compare English cast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kaste?/

Noun

caste f (plural castes)

1. species, race or kind
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:

     Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.

     Here the rich people are born, there the poor peasants; these are the two races that there are in the whole world

2. quality
   • 1859, Ramón Barros Silvelo, Un dia de desfertuna, page 3:

     Dime logo que o probe do animal ou é de mala caste, ou ben non come

     He readily told me that the animal [that I was selling] either was of bad quality, or either it didn't eat

3. progeny; group of people that share a common ancestor
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 8:

     { soy llamado Pedro Luces ... } - To to to, vamos con tento que un home con ese nome pode ser caste do demo.

     {I am called Peter Lights...} —Wo wo wo! Let us be careful: a man with that name could de a Devil's child.

   Synonyms: estirpe, fruxe, liñaxe

Derived terms

• castizar (“to mate”)
• castizo (“stud pig”)
• de caste (“selected”)

References

• “caste” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “caste” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caste” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Adjective

caste

1. feminine plural of casto

Noun

caste f

1. plural of casta

Anagrams

• cesta

Latin

Etymology 1

From castus +? -?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kas.te?/, [?käs?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kas.te/, [?k?st??]

Adverb

cast? (comparative castius, superlative castissim?)

1. purely, spotlessly, virtuously
2. piously, religiously

Etymology 2

Inflected form of castus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kas.te/, [?käs?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kas.te/, [?k?st??]

Adjective

caste

1. vocative masculine singular of castus

References

• caste in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caste in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette