genetrix Latin · revision 31735

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɡɛ.nɛ.triːks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈd͡ʒɛː.ne.triks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''genetrīx''' ''f'' (genitive genetrīcis, masculine genitor); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A less frequent spelling is ''genitrīx''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|gignō|-trīx|t1=to beget]],^(OLD 2012) the feminine of [[m|la|genitor|t=father]]; de Vaan notes that the form ⟨genetrix⟩ requires a stem at least as old as ⟨*genetor⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary takes it back to [[ine-pro|*ǵénh₁trih₂]], from the root [[ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-|t=to beget]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) Compare [[sa|जनित्री|tr=jánitrī|t=mother]] and [[grc|γενέτειρα|tr=genéteira|t=mother]].^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Ennius,^(de Vaan 2008) who has a prayer to “Venus, born of the sea, mother of our father”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a mother, usually of a particular person, and in poetry it is used especially of Venus as the ancestress of the Romans, as in the first line of Lucretius, “mother of the sons of Aeneas”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus applies it to his native land, and Apuleius to the earth as mother and nurse of all living things.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is the originator of something, as Laevius' Venus, “mother of desire”.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Church Latin it is used of the Mother of God.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of Venus as mother of Aeneas.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of Venus as mother of the Romans.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of his native land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|mother]]; of Venus, the ancestress of the Romans; of the earth or one's native land.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An originator, [[m|en|creator]]; a [[m|en|foundress]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The [[m|en|Mother of God]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[genitor]]

+ * [[gigno|alt=gignō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}