ἀρρενικός, ή, όν,
(ἄρρην) male, σωμάτιον[[ “POxy.” 37i7 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ᾠόν[[ “PMag.Lond.” 121.522, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 16.1] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; opposed to θηλυκός, [[ “IG” 14.872.5 (from Cumae)] Refs]: less Attic dialect form ἀρσενικός[[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 27, “POxy.” 38.7 (1st c.AD), “Anthologia Graeca” 5.115 (Marc. argument); λίβανον ἀ. “PMag.Par.” 1.906] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; compare λίβανος.
__2 virile, [[ 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 11.18 (_comparative_)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of masculine gender, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1011c; πτῶσις 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.294] Refs 1st c.AD+]; (ἀρσ-) [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 634.17, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]adverb -κῶς, opposed to θηλυκῶς,[[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 12, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.590b] Refs 1st c.BC+], (ἀρσ-) [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.3.11.] Refs 1st c.BC+]