genitalis Latin · revision 32415

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɡɛ.nɪˈtaː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [d͡ʒe.niˈtaː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''genitālis''' (neuter genitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|gignō|t=to beget]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ālis]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL derives it from the same noun that appears in the name of the goddess Genita Mana, in [[osc|genetaí]] and in [[grc|γενετή|tr=geneté|t=birth]].^(TLL) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|gignō]], which he traces to [[ine-pro|*ǵi-ǵnh₁-e/o-|t=to engender]], from the root [[ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Ennius has it first, in the ''Annals'': Romulus spends eternity in heaven with the gods of creation.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first concerned with creation, as Ennius' generative gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More often it is concerned with procreation and reproduction: Lucretius uses it of the generative principles of matter and of the genital parts, and Virgil has the earth swelling in spring and asking for fertile seeds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also connected with one's birth: Velleius calls Miletus a man's native soil, and Tacitus has the birthday.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In Horace's ''Carmen Saeculare'' Genitālis is a name of the goddess of childbirth.^(OLD 2012) Later it means hereditary or native, as of a tree bearing fruit not its own in Calpurnius.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Medieval Latin it is native, innate, ancestral or parental.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of the gods of creation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the generative elements and the genital parts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the goddess of childbirth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|genital]] is borrowed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Concerned with creation; generative, fruitful.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Concerned with procreation, reproductive; [[m|en|genital]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of one's birth or birthday; native.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Hereditary, inborn;^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976) ''(Medieval Latin)'' ancestral, parental.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A name of Lucina, the goddess of [[m|en|childbirth]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[genitāle]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gigno|alt=gignō]]

+ * [[genitor]]

+ * [[en|genital]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}