genesis

genesis

See also: Genesis, génesis, Génesis, Gênesis, -genesis, and -génesis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth, production”), from *ǵenh₁-. Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind, gens, and jati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/

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Noun

genesis (plural geneses)

1. The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

   Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.

   • 1980, Helmut Brinker, Eberhard Fischer, Treasures from the Rietberg Museum‎, →ISBN, LCCN 80-12528, OCLC 491281276, OL 4098205M, page 91:

     The genesis of the Chinese bronze mirror can be traced far back into the Chou dynasty. Some pieces that may possibly date from the eighth century B.C., but certainly predate the year 655 B.C., were unearthed in 1956-1957 at Shang-ts’ung-ling near San-men-hsia in western Honan Province.

Derived terms

• soil genesis

Translations

the origin, start, or point at which something comes into being

Albanian: zanafillë (sq) Arabic: تَكْوِين‎ (ar) m (takwīn) Bengali: ইবতিদা (bn) (ibtida) Bulgarian: произход (bg) m (proizhod) Catalan: gènesi (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 創始／创始 (zh) (chuàngshǐ), 起源 (zh) (qǐyuán), 開端／开端 (zh) (kāiduān) Danish: tilblivelse c, genese c Dutch: genese (nl) f, oorsprong (nl) f, wording (nl) f Finnish: alku (fi) French: genèse (fr) f Galician: xénese f Georgian: წარმოშობა (c̣armošoba), დასაწყისი (dasac̣q̇isi), გენეზისი (genezisi) German: Genese (de) f, Genesis (de) f Japanese: 起源 (ja) (きげん, kigen), 創世期 (そうせいき, sōseiki) Malayalam: ഉല്പത്തി (ml) n (ulpatti) Norwegian: Bokmål: tilblivelse m, genese m Nynorsk: tilbliing f, tilverting f, genese m Persian: بوش‎ (fa) (baveš ~ boweš), پیدایش‎ (fa) (peydāyeš) Plautdietsch: Aunfank m, Häakunft f Polish: geneza (pl) f, początek (pl) m, powstanie (pl) n Portuguese: génese (pt) f (Portugal), gênese (pt) f, origem (pt) f Russian: происхожде́ние (ru) n (proisxoždénije), возникнове́ние (ru) n (vozniknovénije), генезис (ru) m (genɛ́zis) Sanskrit: उत्पाद (sa) m (utpāda) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: генеза f, постанак m Roman: geneza (sh) f, postanak (sh) m Spanish: génesis (es) f Swedish: uppkomst (sv), tillblivelse Turkish: yaratılış (tr), ülkü (tr)

Further reading

• genesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• genesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• Geisens, Giesens, seeings, signees

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth, production”), from *ǵenh₁-.

Noun

genesis f (genitive genesis or geneseōs or genesios); third declension

1. generation, creation, nativity
2. birth

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	genesis	genesēs geneseis
Genitive	genesis geneseōs genesios	genesium
Dative	genesī	genesibus
Accusative	genesim genesin genesem1	genesēs genesīs
Ablative	genesī genese1	genesibus
Vocative	genesis genesi	genesēs geneseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• → Catalan: gènesi (learned)
• → Dutch: genese (learned)
  • → Indonesian: genesa
• → English: genesis (learned)
• → French: genèse (semi-learned)
• → Italian: genesi (learned)
• → Spanish: génesis (learned)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: genesis, genese (learned)
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: genesis, genese (learned)
• → Turkish: genez (learned)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, creation, beginning”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth, production”), from *ǵenh₁-.

Noun

genesis m (definite singular genesisen, indefinite plural genesisar, definite plural genesisane)

1. creation, genesis, origin

References

• “genesis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.