genesis
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< Latin genesis (“‘generation, nativity’”) < Ancient Greek γένεσις (genesis), “‘origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation’”) < γίγνεσθαι second aor. γενέσθαι (“‘to be produced, become, be’”).
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genesis (plural geneses)
- The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
- Some point to the creation of the Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.
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- genesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- genesis in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911