In languages that use grammatical gender, words or lexical units used to indicate more than one male person or animal, or multiple instances of another noun that falls into the "masculine" category. For example, in Spanish "pintor" is a singular masculine noun and "pintores" is a plural masculine noun In languages that use grammatical gender, words or lexical units used to indicate one male person or animal, or one instance of another noun that falls into the "masculine" category. For example, in Spanish "pintores" is a plural masculine noun, also used for multiple painters of mixed gender; "pintor" is a singular masculine noun.
