geniture
English
Etymology
From Old French géniture (the same word in modern French), or its source Latin genitura, from the base of gignere (“to beget”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃə/
Noun
geniture (plural genitures)
- Birth; begetting.
- 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 10)
- on Lady-Day, which was on the 25th of the same month in which I date my geniture,—my father set out upon his journey to London with my eldest brother Bobby, to fix him at Westminster school
- 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 10)
Latin
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