genitor Latin · revision 30769

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=ine-pro *ǵenh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɡɛ.nɪ.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈd͡ʒɛː.ni.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''genitor''' ''m'' (genitive genitōris, feminine genetrīx or genitrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|gignō|-tor|t1=to beget]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) Wiktionary and de Vaan also consider it an inherited agent noun [[ine-pro|*ǵénh₁tōr|t=begetter, parent]], matching [[grc|γενέτωρ|tr=genétōr|t=begetter]]; de Vaan points out that the medial vowel could instead show a later derivation from the participle [[m|la|genitus]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Ennius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who calls Jupiter ''ō genitor noster Sāturnie, maxime dīvum'', “O our father, son of Saturn, greatest of the gods”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Genitor'' is one's father, a word of high style (Accius, Virgil: ''subiit cārī genitōris imāgō'', “the image of my dear father came to me”), applied to Jupiter and to Neptune.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a cause or originator (Ovid: Quirinus, ''genitor urbis'', Pliny the Elder calls the Greeks “begetters of every vice”).^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin uses it for a father and for God the Creator.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius: ''ō genitor noster Sāturnie''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius: ''genitōrem iniūstum adprobās''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil: ''cārī genitōris imāgō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder: ''vitiōrum omnium genitōrēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|father]], parent, begetter, [[m|en|sire]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(of Jupiter, Neptune)'' Father.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A cause, originator, author.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The Creator.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gignō]]

+ * [[genetrīx]]

+ * [[prōgenitor]]

+ * [[pater]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}