genitor

See also: genitôr

English

Etymology

From Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr; the Latin is also equivalent to gignō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

genitor (plural genitors)

1. a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
2. a generator; an originator
   • 1616, Richard Sheldon, “A Briefe Prelude, Shewing the Pseudo-Christianisme of Papists, in respect of their lying Signes, and Wonders”, in A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, page 12:

     […] prophane legends (though termed by their Genitours and forefathers, Aureæ Legendæ, Golden Legends) […]

3. (obsolete, in the plural) The genitals
   • 1579, William Langham, The Garden of Health:

     The same […] healeth all paine and swellings of the genitors or stones.

Synonyms

• biofather
• biomother
• bioparent
• birthfather
• birthmother
• birthparent

Coordinate terms

• genetrix / genitrix (“female genitor”)

Related terms

• progenitor
• progenitrix

Anagrams

• Negrito, ergotin, negrito, toe ring, toering, trigone

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin genitor.

Noun

genitor (plural genitores)

1. parent

   Synonym: parente

Italian

Verb

genitor (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of genitore

Ladin

Noun

genitor m (plural genitores)

1. parent

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr (“parent”). Equivalent to genō +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.ni.tor/, [ˈɡɛnɪt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.ni.tor/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪or]

Noun

genitor m (genitive genitōris, feminine genetrīx or genitrīx); third declension

1. parent, father, sire, begetter, procreator
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.560:

     “subiit cārī genitōris imāgō”

     “the thought of [my] dear father came to mind”

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.285–286:

     ecce deûm genitor rutilās per nūbila flammās spargit

     Behold the father of the gods scattering his reddening flames through the clouds

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	genitor	genitōrēs
Genitive	genitōris	genitōrum
Dative	genitōrī	genitōribus
Accusative	genitōrem	genitōrēs
Ablative	genitōre	genitōribus
Vocative	genitor	genitōrēs

Synonyms

• pater

Derived terms

• genetrīx / genitrīx

Descendants

• English: genitor
• French: géniteur
• Friulian: genitôr
• Ido: genitoro
• Italian: genitore
• Ladino: jenitor (זﬞיניטור)
• Portuguese: genitor
• Romansch: genitur
• Sicilian: genituri, ginituri
• Spanish: genitor

References

• “genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• genitor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• genitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin genitor.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoʁ/ [ʒe.niˈtoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoʁ/ [ʒe.niˈtoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoʁ/ [ʒe.niˈtoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɨ.niˈtoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɨ.niˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɨ.niˈto.ɾi/

Noun

genitor m (plural genitores, feminine genitora, feminine plural genitoras)

1. genitor (biological parent)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French géniteur.

Noun

genitor m (plural genitori)

1. genitor (biological parent)

Declension

Declension of genitor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) genitor	genitorul	(niște) genitori	genitorii
genitive/dative	(unui) genitor	genitorului	(unor) genitori	genitorilor
vocative	genitorule		genitorilor