“Gender” and “genre” both come from the same Latin root, but were assimilated into English indirectly, from French at different points in time and with slightly different meanings.
Romance languages have one single word for both with a coherent meaning, derived directly from Latin.
The writer of the comment above probably speaks one of those languages natively. From the complex sentence structure, preposition usage and (very) minor mistakes, I’d guess Spanish.
This is the first time I've ever seen "genre" used in that context.
What does it mean here?
“Gender” and “genre” both come from the same Latin root, but were assimilated into English indirectly, from French at different points in time and with slightly different meanings.
Romance languages have one single word for both with a coherent meaning, derived directly from Latin.
The writer of the comment above probably speaks one of those languages natively. From the complex sentence structure, preposition usage and (very) minor mistakes, I’d guess Spanish.
I had no idea they came from the same root. Thank you.