genitor

Borrowed from Latin genitor, from genitus, past participle of the verb gignō + agent noun suffix -or.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛnɪtə(ɹ)/

genitor (plural genitors)

1. a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
2. a generator; an originator

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3. (obsolete, in the plural) The genitals

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• biofather
• biomother
• bioparent
• birthfather
• birthmother
• birthparent

• genetrix / genitrix (“female genitor”)

• progenitor
• progenitrix

• Negrito, ergotin, negrito, toe ring, toering, trigone

genitor m (plural genitores)

1. parent

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr (“parent”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.ni.tor/, [ˈɡɛ.nɪ.tɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.ni.tor/, [ˈd͡ʒeː.ni.tor]

genitor m (genitive genitōris); third declension

1. parent, father, sire

Third declension.

• genetrīx / genitrīx

• genitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• genitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• genitor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• genitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin genitor.

genitor m (plural genitores, feminine genitora, feminine plural genitoras)

1. genitor (biological parent)