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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *génetis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis. Synchronically a verbal noun from γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡé.ne.sis/ → /ˈʝe.ne.sis/ → /ˈʝe.ne.sis/
Noun
γένεσις • (génesis) f (genitive γενέσεως); third declension
- origin, source
- manner of birth
- creation
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “γένεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γένεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “γένεσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- γένεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- γένεσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- γένεσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1078 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- birth idem, page 79.
- creation idem, page 183.
- generation idem, page 356.
- growth idem, page 376.
- nature idem, page 552.
- origin idem, page 579.
- procreation idem, page 644.
- production idem, page 645.
- propagation idem, page 653.
- raising idem, page 670.
- “γένεσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
Greek
Etymology
Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʝe.ne.sis/
- Hyphenation: γέ‧νε‧σις
Noun
γένεσις • (génesis) f (plural γενέσεις)
- Katharevousa form of γένεση (génesi)
Usage notes
- as proper noun Γένεσις (Génesis, “Genesis”) (book of the Bible)
Declension
- As in Ancient Greek without the dual number