| 词汇 | female |
| 词源 | female. The word female is not related to the word male, as many people believe. It ultimately derives from the Latin femel- la, which means a girl or young woman. Male for a man comes from another Latin word, mas, which became masaulus and then masclus in Latin and finally masle and then male in French, from which it came into English as male. |
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