genesis

Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth, production”), from *ǵenh₁-. Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/

genesis (plural geneses)

1. The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

   Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.

• genesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• genesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Giesens, seeings, signees

From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth, production”), from *ǵenh₁-.

genesis f (genitive genesis or geneseōs or genesios); third declension

1. generation, creation, nativity
2. birth

Third declension i-stem, Greek type.

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• Catalan: gènesi
• English: genesis
• Spanish: génesis