English Online Dictionary. What means genesis? What does genesis mean?
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning”). Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind, gens, and jati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪn.ə.sɪs/
- Rhymes: -ɛnəsɪs
- Hyphenation: ge‧ne‧sis
Noun
genesis (plural geneses)
- The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
Derived terms
- soil genesis
Translations
Further reading
- “genesis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “genesis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- Geisens, Giesens, seeings, signees
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”)
Noun
genesis f (genitive genesis or geneseōs or genesios); third declension
- generation, creation, nativity
- birth
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants
All borrowed.
- → 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)
- → Polish: geneza (learned)
- → Turkish: genez (learned)
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)
- creation, genesis, origin
References
- “genesis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.