Feminine gender

Feminine is a grammatical gender that occurs in all languages that have the grammatical category. It applies usually to animate objects of the female gender, but it is often used used with inanimate, and in some cases animates of the male gender.

For example, in Spanish, the words mesa (table) and persona (person) are feminine and epicene (can be used for both genders) the feminine natural gender is not used unlike words like madrina (godmother). Some nouns in Italian are feminine and inanimate like tovaglia (tablecloth), and others are feminine and animate like donna (woman).