geniture

From Old French géniture (the same word in modern French), or its source Latin genitura, from the base of gignere (“to beget”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃə/

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geniture (plural genitures)

1. Birth; begetting.
   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 10:

     on Lady-Day, which was on the 25th of the same month in which I date my geniture,—my father set out upon his journey to London with my eldest brother Bobby, to fix him at Westminster school

   • 1953, B. L. van der Waerden, “History of the Zodiac”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, volume 16, page 229:

     As Fagan points out, this horoscope may well have been computed from the planetary tables mentioned before. It is also possible that the astrologer who computed this geniture used Theon's reduction rule.

• entrigue

genitūre

1. vocative masculine singular of genitūrus