The Latin word for masculine is known as masculinum. It is a gender that refers not only to males but also to the objects that is classified as male.
It is a Latin word for the word masculin. Masculin meaning to be manly. A male as opposed to a female.
The gender of a noun is a way to cetegorize words. In German grammar for instance, there are three genders: masculinum, femininum and neutrum.The gender of a word affects how it is used and referenced in sentences and does not nescessarily have anything to do with the meaning of a word. In fact the German word Mädchen (girl) is considered neutrum.