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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵnh₁-, the reduplicated present stem of *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, beget”). Cognate to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to come into being, to be born, to take place”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
gignō (present infinitive gignere, perfect active genuī, supine genitum); third conjugation
- to bring forth as a fruit of oneself: to bear, to beget, to engender, to give birth to
- Synonyms: genō, prōcreō, suscipiō, prōdō, pario, creō, enitor, cōnītor, ēdō, efficiō
- Antonyms: necō, interimō, caedō, obtruncō
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.17.25:
- Īra patris fīlius stultus: et dolor mātris quae genuit eum.
- A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.
(Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
- (by said means): to produce, to cause, to yield
- (in the passive voice): to be born, to be begotten, to be engendered, to be produced, etc.
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References
- “gigno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gigno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gigno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae terra gignit
- the vegetable kingdom: ea, quae e terra gignuntur
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 260-1