English
geniture
Geniture may come from Old French géniture.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400génitureuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1759geniture
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400génitureuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1759geniture
Earliest quotation: 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy: “on Lady-Day, which was on the 25th of the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, beget’
kind, king, general, nation, german, native, generation, pregnant, nature, gender, genuine, ken, gene, indigenous, oxygen, gentle, naive, kin, hydrogen, noel, genocide, genre, innate, natal, genus, nee, nada, naïve, nativity, janata, germ, nascent, puny, gentile, cognate, jaunty, glycogen, gingerly, gens, genteel, 110 more
through Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵn̥h₁eti ‘to engender’
through Proto-Italic *gignō
through Latin gignō ‘to beget’
Today it means
noun Birth; begetting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French géniture / geniture