genea

genea

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá), from Proto-Hellenic *genehā́, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os. Doublet of genus.

Noun

genea f (genitive geneae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. generation
2. race, descent
3. clan

Declension

• First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	genea	geneae
Genitive	geneae	geneārum
Dative	geneae	geneīs
Accusative	geneam	geneās
Ablative	geneā	geneīs
Vocative	genea	geneae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: genia
  • Sicilian: jinìa

    Calabrese janìa

• North Italian:
  • Ladin: giania
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: znèja
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Norman: genée, genaye

    Cauchois: genêye

    Jersey Norman: genâie

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *genoria
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: genòria, genôria
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: geneuira
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Provençal: genòria

References

• Souter, Alexander (1949), “genea”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 159