genesis

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪn.ə.sɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnəsɪs
• Hyphenation: ge‧ne‧sis

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^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.

• “genesis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “genesis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Geisens, Giesens, seeings, signees

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ɡeˈnesis/ [ɡeˈne.sɪs]
• Rhymes: -esis
• Syllabification: ge‧ne‧sis

genesis (plural genesis-genesis)

1. genesis: the origin, start, or point at which something comes into being

• “genesis”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γένεσῐς (génesĭs, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”)

genesis f (genitive genesis); third declension

1. generation, creation, nativity
2. birth

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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)

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

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

1. creation, genesis, origin

• “genesis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.