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[โ€“] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It was deprecated in most Latin based languages though

[โ€“] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 4 days ago

Not quite deprecated but merged with the masculine, once the case system was eroded enough. That's one of the reasons Romance languages typically default to the masculine, if you "force" a genderless word (like a verb) into a noun role.