geniture

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From Old (and modern) French géniture, or its source Latin genitura, from the base of gignere ‘beget’.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈʤɛnɪʧə/

[edit] Noun

geniture (plural genitures)

1. Birth, begetting.
   • 1759: 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 — Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 10)