LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -From French genre (“kind, style”), from Latin genus (“type, kind”).

Detailed explanation-2: -Genre, as you might guess from the way it sounds, comes straight from French, a language based on Latin. It’s closely related to genus, a word you may have encountered in biology class.

Detailed explanation-3: -genre, (French: “kind” or “sort”) a distinctive type or category of literary composition, such as the epic, tragedy, comedy, novel, and short story.

Detailed explanation-4: -As with most Western European languages, the word “genre” stems from the Latin genus and Ancient Greek génos, meaning origin or group. These words were typically used to describe social groups in the ancient world, but were developed by the French in the 1700s to mean “a particular style of art.”