generatim

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Latin

Etymology

genus, gener- (“kind”) +‎ -ātim

Adverb

generātim (not comparable)

by kinds, species, tribes, classes or divisions
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.19:
  Generatimque distributi in civitates
  and being distributed in tribes according to their respective states
in general, generally

References

“generatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“generatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
generatim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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