genō

Meaning

1. Old Latinto bring forth as a fruit of oneself: to bear, to beget, to engender, to give birth to
2. to cause, to produce, to yield
3. to be born, to be begotten, to be engendered, to be produced
   semper ad idem spectare, hoc modo: paterfamilias cum liberorum haberet nihil, uxorem autem haberet, in testamento ita scripsit: si mihi filius genitur unus pluresve, is mihi heres esto. deinde quae assolent. postea: si filius ante moritur, quam in tutelam suam venerit, tum mihi, dicet, heres esto.Translation by C. D. Yonge It must be proved always to have the same object in view, in this way: The head of a house, at a time when he had no children, but had a wife, inserted this clause in his will: "If I have a son or sons born to me, he or they is or are to be my heir or heirs." Then follow the ordinary provisions. After that comes the following clause: "If my son dies before he comes into the property, which is held in trust for him, then," says the clause, "you shall be my reversionary heir."84 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione 2.122.5-10

Conjugation conjugation 3

Origins

Disputed. De Vaan suggests that this term was built on a root aorist of *ǵenh₁-. Alternatively, the term may derive from a thematic root present of the same root, perhaps whence also Sanskrit जनति (janati, “to beget, to produce, etc.”). Cognate with Latin gignō, Ancient Greek γείνομαι (geínomai, “to beget, to bring into being, (passively) to be born”), Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ, “offspring, seed, act of generation”), Sanskrit जना (janā, “birth, origin”), and other multivarious formations in many languages.

In English words that came into English from genō

• geniusgenius
• congenitalcongenitus
• genitalgenitalis
• ingeniousingeniōsus
• genitorgenitor
• postremogeniturepostrēmōgenitus
• rurigenousrurigena
• ignigenousignigenus
• unigenousunigena

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