generator Latin · revision 8876

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la genus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɡɛ.nɛˈraː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [d͡ʒe.neˈraː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''generātor''' ''m'' (genitive generātōris, feminine generātrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[generō]] “to beget” with the agent suffix [[-tor]], from [[genus]] “birth, race”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC, and Cicero uses it in his translation of Plato's ''Timaeus'' of those who could know their begetters.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a begetter, father, sire, a producer.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it very rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for father, sire.^(DMLBS) It gave [[en|generator]] in the 1640s, “person who begets or produces”; the sense of a machine is later.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 1640s – English ''generator'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A begetter, [[m|en|father]]; a producer.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[generatorius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[generō]]

+ * [[genus]]

+ * [[generātiō]]

+ * [[en|generator]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}