generatio

Latin edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡe.neˈraː.ti.oː/, [ɡɛnɛˈräːt̪ioː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒe.neˈrat.t͡si.o/, [d͡ʒeneˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

generātiō f (genitive generātiōnis); third declension

a generation
- 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8:
  Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]
  But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]
a begetting
offspring
- c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Jerome, 1 John 5.18:
  Scimus quia omnis qui natus est ex Deo, non peccat : sed generatio Dei conservat eum, et malignus non tangit eum.
  We know because each whose birth is from God, doesn't sin, but the offspring of God uphold him, and the wicked one doesn't touch him.

“generatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
generatio 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)
generatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.