English Explanatory Dictionary

only-begotten

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being the only child of one’s parent (especially one’s father)
  2. One of the attributes of Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God the Father.

Word forms

only-begotten

Etymology

From Middle English oonlybigeten, equivalent to only + begotten. Compare also Middle English only geten, oonly geten (“only-begotten”, literally “only-gotten”) and Middle English onbygoten, oon be-gotyn, one bygeten, oon bigetun, oon bigeten (“only-begotten”, literally “one-begotten”). Calque of Latin ūnigenitus, itself a calque of Ancient Greek μονογενής (monogenḗs).

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