section_path: Etymology and usage/History of the concept/As a grammatical category
section_name: As a grammatical category
paragraph_text: As a grammatical category
  
  The word was still widely used, however, in the specific sense of grammatical gender (the assignment of nouns to categories such as masculine, feminine and neuter). According to Aristotle, this concept was introduced by the Greek philosopher Protagoras.
  
  In 1926, Henry Watson Fowler stated that the definition of the word pertained to this grammar-related meaning:
  
  "Gender...is a grammatical term only. To talk of persons...of the masculine or feminine g, meaning of the male or female sex, is either a jocularity (permissible or not according to context) or a blunder."