English
genrefy
From genre + -fy.
Formed from genre + -fy
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, beget’
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Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genus ‘birth, origin, lineage, descent’
Old French gen(d)re
French genre ‘kind’
English genre
Today it means
verb To sort a library collection so that books of the same genre are shelved together.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / genrefy