cis-
prefixEtymology
From the Latin preposition cis (“on this side of”). The earliest known sexuality-related use of the prefix in any language was in a 1914 German-language book on sexology. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994.
Definitions
On this side of.
- cis- + alpine → cisalpine (“on this [the Roman] side of the Alps”)
- cis- + Rhenane → cisrhenane (“on this [the speaker's] side of Rhine”)
- cis- + Caucasia → Ciscaucasia
Forming names of chemical compounds in which two atoms or groups are situated on the same…
Forming names of chemical compounds in which two atoms or groups are situated on the same side of some plane of symmetry passing through the compound.
- cis- + diazene → cis-diazene
Not trans.
- cis- + gender → cisgender
- cis- + sexual → cissexual
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cis-. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA