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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Not quite deprecated but merged with the masculine, once the case system was eroded enough. That's one of the reasons Romance languages typically default to the masculine, if you "force" a genderless word (like a verb) into a noun role.