See also: génital and Genital

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Etymology edit

From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (of or belonging to generation), from genitus, past participle of gignō (to beget, generate); see genus.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnətəl/, /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtəl/
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genital (not comparable)

  1. Of, or relating to biological reproduction.
  2. Of, or relating to the genitalia.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:
      In countless Hollywood movies we see the story of two soldiers or sailors on leave; for them the pursuit of women is simply a way of relieving a genital pressure.
  3. (psychoanalysis) Of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty.

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genital (plural genitals)

  1. (rare, chiefly in the plural) A genital organ.
    • 1961, The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      ( b ) the masturbation [...] served as evidence that his genital was not injured ("fixing feet")
    • 1967, Ruth G. Newman, Marjorie M. Keith, The School-centered Life Space Interview, Six Papers:
      David told of his fears of castration and his concern that his genital was not as large as another boy's on the ward, and perhaps would never be.
    • 2013, Susan Isaacs, Childhood and After: Some Essays and Clinical Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164:
      [] the anxiety and distress that his genital was dirty, disgusting and dangerous to his mother (myself); the dread of the bad internalized penis and his own faeces and urine.

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genital (strong nominative masculine singular genitaler, not comparable)

  1. genital

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  • genital” in Duden online
  • genital” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: ge‧ni‧tal

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genital m or f (plural genitais, not comparable)

  1. genital

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genital m (plural genitais)

  1. (Usually plural) genital

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Borrowed from French génital, from Latin genitalis.

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genital m or n (feminine singular genitală, masculine plural genitali, feminine and neuter plural genitale)

  1. genital

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Borrowed from Latin genitālis.

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  • IPA(key): /xeniˈtal/ [xe.niˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ge‧ni‧tal

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genital m or f (masculine and feminine plural genitales)

  1. genital

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genital m (plural genitales)

  1. (Usually plural) genital

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