geniture

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English

Etymology

From Old French géniture (the same word in modern French), or its source Latin genitura, from the base of gignere (“to beget”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

geniture (plural genitures)

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

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) genitūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of genitūrus
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