Male or Female or both?

Question

The word Cariño, would it be Cariña to say to a woman or is it Cariño for both sexes?

Hi Finn. Welcome to SpanishDict. Please and language and gender to your profile. - rac1, May 7, 2016

Typo: Please A D D. - AnnRon, May 7, 2016

Thanks Ann. :) - rac1, May 8, 2016

Answer 1

This is a cut and paste out of the dictionary.

el cariño (m), la cariño (f) 

Are you ready yet, dear?¿Ya estás lista, cariño?

Thanks Andre, I found someone asked this quesion some time ago, it was as you say Cariño for both sexes. - FinnPeter, May 7, 2016

:) No wonder we all have trouble with gender of Spanish words. - gringojrf, May 7, 2016

Answer 2

Watching Netflix with subtitles I saw something that fits right in here.

Cariño, the noun, is el cariño or la cariño.

But when you change it to the adjective cariñoso or cariñosa it changes endings. I thought this was interesting and decided to add it here.