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English
Noun
progenies
- plural of progeny
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From progigno + -iēs.
Pronunciation
Noun
prōgeniēs f (genitive prōgeniēī); fifth declension
- race, family, progeny, lineage, descent
- Synonyms: gēns, prōlēs
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.19–20:
- 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,
she had heard, 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.”)
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “progenies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “progenies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- progenies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- progenies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Noun
progenies f pl
- plural of progenie