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See also: genètic
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined from genesis[1], similarly to antithesis, antithetic.[2] Ultimately from Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Equivalent to gene + -tic.
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genetic (not comparable)
- (genetics) Relating to genetics or genes. [from 1908]
- 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
- Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
- Caused by genes.
- Of or relating to origin (genesis). [from 1831]
- 1858, Year-Book Of Facts In Science And Art For 1858
- All evidence tends to this conclusion, that the sun is the prime genetic agent of earthquakes and of every other pluto-dynamic impulse which acts against the crust of the planet, and breaks or elevates any of its parts.
- 1858, Year-Book Of Facts In Science And Art For 1858
- (linguistics) Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
- Chinese has borrowed several words from English, but it does not have a genetic relationship to English.
- (theology) Based on a shared membership in a religious family.
- 2016 September 15, Yamashiro, Koji, Yochai Ataria, David Gurevitz, Haviva Pedaya, Yuval Neria, editors, Trauma and Monotheism: Sugmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion[1], Springer International Publishing Switzerland, →ISBN, page 251:
- Guy Stroumsa (2011) proposes the use of the alternative term Abrahamic religions, emphasizing the genetic relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their branches, for which the idea of monotheism is not always central.
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Translations[edit]
relating to genetics or genes
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caused by genes
Further reading[edit]
References[edit]
- genetic at OneLook Dictionary Search
- genetic in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "genetic" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 142.
- “genetic” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “genetic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “genetic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Interlingua[edit]
Adjective[edit]
genetic (not comparable)
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Occitan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
genetic m (feminine singular genetica, masculine plural genetics, feminine plural geneticas)
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Further reading[edit]
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 524.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
genetic m or n (feminine singular genetică, masculine plural genetici, feminine and neuter plural genetice)
Declension[edit]
Declension of genetic
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | genetic | genetică | genetici | genetice | ||
definite | geneticul | genetica | geneticii | geneticele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | genetic | genetice | genetici | genetice | ||
definite | geneticului | geneticei | geneticilor | geneticelor |
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