genus.
birth/descent/origin; race/family/house/stock/ancestry; offspring/descent; noble birth; kind/sort/variety; class/rank; mode/method/style/fashion/way;
Meaning & usage
birth, origin, lineage, descent
kind, type, class
species (general classification, as of living things), taxon (of animal or plant), race (of people or animals)
set, group, category (with common attributes)
gender
subtype of word
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos Latin genus From Proto-Italic *genos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os n (“race”), from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, beget”); compare also gēns, gignō and -gnus, from the same root. The genitive gener-is (< PIE *ǵénh₁es-os) displays the sound shift -r- < intervocalic *-s-, through which the Old Latin form *genes-is can be reconstructed. Cognates include Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, stock, kin, kind”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “race, class of beings”), Proto-Celtic *genos (“birth; family”), and English kin. Doublet of genea.
genitive singular of genū̆
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