masculinas

Masculinas is the feminine plural form of the adjective masculino, meaning masculine, in Spanish and Portuguese. It is used to describe feminine plural nouns and to indicate that the described nouns have masculine gender in terms of grammatical agreement. In these languages, adjectives must agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify, so the form chosen depends on the noun’s gender.

In practice, masculine and feminine adjective forms help signal grammatical gender rather than physical or inherent traits. For example, in Spanish, palabras masculinas describes words that are masculine in gender; the noun palabras is feminine, while the adjective takes the feminine plural form masculinas to agree with it. In Portuguese, the same principle applies with palavras masculinas or palavras masculinas, again using the feminine plural form when appropriate to the noun’s gender.

Beyond simple agreement, the term appears in linguistic discussions of gender systems, noun classes, and agreement rules in Romance languages. It is not a separate lexical item or concept on its own; rather, it is one grammatical inflection used to mark feminine plural agreement for a masculine descriptor.

Related concepts include the masculine plural form (masculinos) and other gendered adjective endings in Spanish and Portuguese. The distinction between masculine and feminine adjective forms is a fundamental feature of these languages’ syntax and morphology, reflected in everyday adjective–noun agreement as seen with forms like masculin as versus masculinas.