English Explanatory Dictionary

genesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
name
  1. The first book in the Hebrew Bible.
  2. A female given name from Ancient Greek of American usage since the 1980s.

Pronunciation

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/ /ˈd͡ʒɪn.ə.sɪs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-genesis.wav /ˈd͡ʒɛ.nə.səs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Genesis.wav

Word forms

genesis geneses

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning”). Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind, gens, and jati.

Synonyms

Gen.

Related words

Genesiac Genesiacal genesis Genesitic

Derived words

acrometagenesis anthogenesis biogenesis cisgenesis cogenesis collaterogenesis corticogenesis cosmogenesis costamerogenesis diagenesis digenetic endogenesis entheogenesis eogenesis estrogenesis eugenesis Genesis Planet genetic glottogenesis glycerogenesis glycogenesis gonadogenesis haematogenesis hypergenesis isogenesis karyogenesis kinetogenesis leptogenesis lithogenesis lobulogenesis macrogenesis magnetogenesis merogenesis microgenesis mucogenesis myelinogenesis neogenesis oögenesis ovigenesis pangenesis perigenesis Planet Genesis progenesis radiogenesis regenesis soil genesis speleogenesis teleogenesis thrombogenesis
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