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means Relating to the sex that produces small, mobile sperm rather than eggs — in humans and most animals, the one without the womb.

from From Old French 'masle,' from Latin 'masculus' (meaning 'male,' also the root of 'masculine'), itself a diminutive form built on 'mas,' meaning simply 'male person' or 'male animal.' The 'c' quietly dropped out as the word passed through French into English — compare how 'masculus' also gave Spanish 'macho.' The b in some older spellings (and in 'female,' which isn't actually related to 'male' at all despite looking like it) is its own separate story — 'female' comes from Latin 'femella,' a diminutive of 'femina' (woman), and got reshaped by English speakers to rhyme with 'male' through folk etymology, not genuine kinship.