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English
Verb
degener (third-person singular simple present degeners, present participle degenering, simple past and past participle degenered)
- (intransitive, obsolete) Alternative form of degender (“to degenerate”)
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + genus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dēgener (genitive dēgeneris); third-declension one-termination adjective
- of inferior stock, low-born
- inferior to one’s predecessors, degenerate
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
❇ Neut. nom. pl., acc. pl. and voc. pl. are not attested in Classical Latin, but they are attested in Modern Latin.
Derived terms
References
- “degener”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “degener”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- degener in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.