genitor
See also: genitôr
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr; the Latin is also equivalent to gignō + -tor.
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genitor (plural genitors)
- a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
- a generator; an originator
- 1616, Richard Sheldon, “A Briefe Prelude, Shewing the Pseudo-Christianisme of Papists, in respect of their lying Signes, and Wonders”, in A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, page 12:
- […] prophane legends (though termed by their Genitours and forefathers, Aureæ Legendæ, Golden Legends) […]
- (obsolete, in the plural) The genitals
- 1579, William Langham, The Garden of Health:
- The same […] healeth all paine and swellings of the genitors or stones.
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genitor (plural genitores)
Italian edit
Verb edit
genitor (apocopated)
Ladin edit
Noun edit
genitor m (plural genitores)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr (“parent”). Equivalent to genō + -tor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡe.ni.tor/, [ˈɡɛnɪt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.ni.tor/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪or]
Noun edit
genitor m (genitive genitōris, feminine genetrīx or genitrīx); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | genitor | genitōrēs |
Genitive | genitōris | genitōrum |
Dative | genitōrī | genitōribus |
Accusative | genitōrem | genitōrēs |
Ablative | genitōre | genitōribus |
Vocative | genitor | genitōrēs |
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- “genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- genitor 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)
- genitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin genitor.
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genitor m (plural genitores, feminine genitora, feminine plural genitoras)
- genitor (biological parent)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French géniteur.
Noun edit
genitor m (plural genitori)
- genitor (biological parent)
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Declension of genitor
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) genitor | genitorul | (niște) genitori | genitorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) genitor | genitorului | (unor) genitori | genitorilor |
vocative | genitorule | genitorilor |