LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininefifth declension

prōgeniēs

prōgeniēs f (genitive prōgeniēī)
Classical[proːˈɡɛ.ni.eːs]Ecclesiastical[proˈd͡ʒɛː.ni.es]

Meaning

  1. race, family, progeny, lineage, descent
    Prōgeniem sed enim Trōiānō ā sanguine dūcī, audierat, Tyriās ōlim quae verteret arcēs. But indeed – From the blood of Troy was to issue a race of men,[so] she had heard, [a people] which one day would overthrow this Tyrian citadel. (The goddess Juno resented the descendants of Troy who would later found Rome, which one day would supersede her beloved Carthage; the Carthaginians had come from Tyre. Note: This usage of audierat is an abbreviated form of audiverat, “she had heard.”)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.19–20

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Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms

Stirps · Genus · Gens · Prosapia · Posteritas · Progenies · Proles · Suboles

1. Stirps, genus, and gens, denote the race usually in an ascending line, as abstract and collective terms, for majores; whereas prosapia, progenies, propago, proles, suboles, in a descending line, as abstract and collective terms for posteri. 2. Prosapia is an antiquated solemn expression, and only to be used of ancient noble families, Cic. Univ. 11. Quintil. i. 6, 40; posteritas, the usual prosaic, progenies, a select, elevated expression, Cic. Rep. ii. 22; proles and suboles, poetical expressions, Cic. Or. iii. 38; proles denotes children, as fruits destined, as a younger race, to exist with their parents; suboles, as an after-growth, destined to supply the place of the generation that is dying off. 3. Gens (γενετή) is a political, genus (γένος), a natural race. Gens consists of families, whom the founder of states has united into a community or complex family; genus consists of species and individuals, that by their common properties belong to one and the same class of beings. (v. 307).

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeprōgeniēsprōgeniēs
genitiveprōgeniēīprōgeniērum
dativeprōgeniēīprōgeniēbus
accusativeprōgeniemprōgeniēs
ablativeprōgeniēprōgeniēbus
vocativeprōgeniēsprōgeniēs

prōgĕnĭes, ēi (archaic
I. gen. sing. progenii, Pac. ap. Gell. 9, 14, 13; and id. ap. Non. 490, 6), f. progigno, descent, lineage, race, family.
I. Lit.: in abstracto (very rare but class.): progeniem vestram usque ab avo atque atavo proferens, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 48: antiquitas quo propius aberat ab ortu et divinā progenie, hoc melius, etc., Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 26; id. Rep. 1, 24, 38: virtutem, non progeniem quaeri oportere (preceded by qui modo esset Herculis stirpe generatus), id. ib. 2, 12, 24: progeniem sed enim Trojano a sanguine duci, Verg. A. 1, 19.—
II. Transf., in concr.
a. Descendants, posterity, offspring, progeny, a son or daughter, a child (the predom. signification of the word; syn.: proles, suboles), Epitaphs of the Scipios: veteres, qui se progeniem deorum esse dicebant, Cic. Univ. 11: Priamum tantā progenie (i.e. quinquaginta filiis) orbatum, id. Tusc. 1, 35, 85: progenies mea, Claudia, id. Cael. 14, 33; so, Sarpedon, mea progenies, Verg. A. 10, 470: Bacchum Progeniem negat esse Jovis, Ov M. 4, 3; Liv. 1, 16, 3: progenies quoque, ut Apollo ac Diana Latonae, Quint. 3, 7, 8: ex magnā progenie liberorum (preceded by ex tantā stirpe liberūm), Liv. 45, 41 fin.; cf. id. 1, 13, 2: cum se matura levabit progenies (avium), Juv. 14, 84.—In plur.: duces ducumque progenies, Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 11 (30), 4.—
b. A generation of men (eccl. Lat.): una, Lact. 2, 10, 10; Vulg. Exod. 34, 7.—
c. Of animals, offspring, young, etc., Verg. G. 1, 414; 4, 56; Col. 7, 5, 6; 7, 9, 1.—Transf., of plants: vitis progenies, Col. 3, 9, 7.—
III. Trop., of poems, as offsprings of the poet's mind (poet.): stirps haec progeniesque mea est, Ov. Tr. 3, 14, 14.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  4. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  5. Proto-Indo-European*pro-
  6. Proto-Italic*pro-
  7. Latinprōgeniēs

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵn̥h₁etider. Proto-Italic Latin gignō Latin progigno Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin prōgeniēs From progigno + -iēs.

Descendants
  • Catalanprogènie
  • Englishprogeny
  • Frenchprogéniture
  • Italianprogenie
  • Portugueseprogénie
  • Portugueseprogênie
  • Portugueseprogênia
  • Portugueseprogénia
  • Spanishprogenie
  • Sicilianpruggènia

In English words that came into English from prōgeniēs

  • progenyprōgeniēs

Quick answers

What does prōgeniēs mean in Latin?
prōgeniēs, a noun, means “race, family, progeny, lineage, descent”.
What is the genitive of prōgeniēs?
The genitive singular is prōgeniēī. prōgeniēs is feminine, fifth declension.
How do you pronounce prōgeniēs?
In classical Latin, [proːˈɡɛ.ni.eːs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [proˈd͡ʒɛː.ni.es].
Where does prōgeniēs come from?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? → Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? → Proto-Indo-European *pér → Proto-Indo-European *pró → Proto-Indo-European *pro- → Proto-Italic *pro- → Latin prōgeniēs.