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> virile: [adjective] [grammar] pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns
> nonvirile: [adjective] [grammar] pertaining to a grammatical gender used in some Slavic languages for plurals of masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine, and neuter nouns, i.e. for all groups that do not include men or personal masculine nouns
today in Are The Terrans Okay: sexism, linguistics
At least in Polish, it's not "men" but "masculine sapient[^] entities". The "personal masculine nouns" part makes this extremely weird, because e.g. grammatical gender of "human" is male (so if you talk about a group of humans, you always use masculine-personal gender), but grammatical gender of "kid" is neutral (so if you refer to a group of kids, you always use the non-masc-personal gender, regardless of the group's composition).
Aside: Nouns that match some pattern decline differently based on this distinction (e.g. if you think of elves as sapient you'd call them "elfowie" and "elfy" otherwise), which I find to be somewhat endearing (modulo the gender asymmetry), because it embeds some nontrivial information about the speaker's opinions about the world into their speech.
[^] for some value of; it's terribly underspecified and it changed over time (IIUC it used to include at least some animals: "ptakowie niebiescy" was an actually used expression)
