English
genuine
Genuine comes from Latin genuīnus ‘innate, native, natural’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgenuīnus‘innate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1906genuine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgenuīnus‘innate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1906genuine
Earliest quotation: 1906, Violet Tweedale, Lady Sarah's Son: “[…] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to beget, give birth’
kind, nature, king, nation, general, german, native, pregnant, generation, engine, gender, ken, genius, oxygen, naive, genetic, gentle, genre, indigenous, generate, generous, noel, hydrogen, gene, genocide, natal, kin, innate, nativity, nada, naïve, genital, genus, janata, germ, nee, nascent, ingenious, puny, gentile, 115 more
Today it means
adj Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin genuīnus / genuine