génos

gén-os Vorlage:agrie. (γένος) ‘Geschlecht, Abstammung, Familie, Gattung’.

From Proto-Hellenic *génos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os (“genus, clan, family”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth”) (whence γίγνομαι (gígnomai)). Cognate with Latin genus, Sanskrit जनस् (jánas), Old Armenian ծին (cin) and others.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ɡé.nos/ → /ˈʝe.nos/ → /ˈʝe.nos/

Noun

γένος • (génos) n (genitive γένεος or γένους); third declension

1. race, stock, kin 
   1. direct descent, as opposed to collateral relationship 
2. offspring, descendant 
   1. (collective) offspring, posterity 
3. (in general) race of beings 
   1. family, clan, house 
   2. tribe, nation, race, as a subdivision of ἔθνος (éthnos) 
   3. caste 
   4. breed of animals 
4. age, generation, time of life 
5. sex, gender 
   1. (grammar) grammatical gender
6. class, sort, kind 
   1. (logic) the opposite of εἶδος (eîdos, “species”) 
   2. (taxonomy) class 
      1. (taxonomy) genus 
      2. species of plant; crop, produce; material 
   3. element