222: female (versus male) Jul 18, 2015

The word 'female' appears to just have a prefix 'fe' attached to the word 'male', however 'female' is no extension of the 'male'. Both of these have separate Latin Etymologies; 'female' comes from the word 'femina' which as you probably guessed means 'a woman', and 'male' derives from Latin 'masculus', which comes from 'mas' meaning ‘a man’.