The noun author is a common gender noun, a word for a male or a female writer.
The opposite of dairymaid is dairyman.
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female. The female gender nouns for author, Jamie Cat Callan are woman, female, wife. The common gender nouns for Jamie Cat Callan are author, writer, adult, person.
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The general term for writer is scrivente, which is a masculine gender noun. Another term is the masculine gender noun scrittore for a male writer, with its feminine gender equivalent of scrittrice for a female writer. Both 'scrittore' and 'scrittrice' also may be translated into English as 'author'. The English word 'author' also finds its equivalent in the paired masculine gender 'autore' and its feminine gender equivalent 'autrice'.
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In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.The noun 'author' is a common gender noun, a word for a male or a female writer.
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