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[–] varialus ago  (edited ago)

Ah yes, I'm familiar with that word, but I wasn't sure of its origins, so I looked it up just now. It's also Latin meaning having attributes of both sexes, which is of course the same as its current meaning in English. So my original comment is mistaken, hermaphrodite is the correct word. In Latin neuter isn't really used for biological sex, but rather for grammar. But since their equivalent words for male and female are the same words that they use in grammar and biological sex, it makes sense by extension, what neuter would mean in relationship to biological sex. In any case, they didn't have gender, so it's much clearer regardless. If somebody dresses, acts, and looks like the opposite gender, it ain't so hard to just say that.