Meaning of common gender | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A grammatical gender in some languages, formed by the historical merging of masculine and feminine genders.
   countable, uncountable
2. In some languages (e.g. Latin, Lithuanian), a gender applied to a noun that can be either masculine or feminine.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“There are two genders: common gender (genus commune, abbreviated: com.) and neuter (genus neutrum, abbreviated: neut.). The common gender combines the masculine and feminine of other Indo-European languages into one.”

CEFR level