genesis

See also: Genesis, génesis, Génesis, Gênesis, -genesis, and -génesis

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth, production”), from *ǵenh₁-. Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/

Noun

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.

Translations

the origin, start, or point at which something comes into being

• Arabic: تَكْوِين (ar) m (takwīn)
• Bulgarian: произход (bg) m (proizhod)
• Catalan: gènesi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 創始／创始 (zh) (chuàngshǐ), 创始 (zh) (chuàngshǐ), 起源 (zh) (qǐyuán), 開端／开端 (zh) (kāiduān), 开端 (zh) (kāiduān)

• Dutch: genese (nl) f, oorsprong (nl) f, wording (nl) f
• Finnish: alku (fi)
• French: genèse (fr) f
• Galician: xénese f
• Georgian: წარმოშობა (c̣armošoba), დასაწყისი (dasac̣q̇isi), გენეზისი (genezisi)
• German: Genese (de) f, Genesis (de) f
• Japanese: 起源 (ja) (きげん, kigen), 創世期 (そうせいき, sōseiki)
• Malayalam: ഉല്പത്തി (ml) n (ulpatti)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilblivelse m, genese m

  Nynorsk: tilbliing f, tilverting f, genese m

• Polish: geneza (pl) f, początek (pl) m, powstanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: génese (pt) f (Portugal), gênese (pt) f, origem (pt) f
• Russian: происхожде́ние (ru) n (proisxoždénije), возникнове́ние (ru) n (vozniknovénije), генезис (ru) m (genɛ́zis)
• Sanskrit: उत्पाद (sa) m (utpāda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: генеза f, постанак m

  Roman: geneza (sh) f, postanak (sh) m

• Spanish: génesis (es) f
• Swedish: uppkomst (sv), tillblivelse
• Turkish: yaratılış (tr), ülkü (tr)

Further reading

• “genesis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “genesis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Giesens, seeings, signees

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Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

genesis f (genitive genesis or geneseōs or genesios); third declension

1. generation, creation, nativity
2. birth

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	genesis	genesēs geneseis
Genitive	genesis geneseōs genesios	genesium
Dative	genesī	genesibus
Accusative	genesim genesin genesem1	genesēs genesīs
Ablative	genesī genese1	genesibus
Vocative	genesis genesi	genesēs geneseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• Catalan: gènesi
• English: genesis
• Spanish: génesis