genitor

See also: genitôr

English

Etymology

From Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr; the Latin is also equivalent to gignō ‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

genitor (plural genitors)

a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
a generator; an originator
- 1616, Richard Sheldon, “A Briefe Prelude, Shewing the Pseudo-Christianisme of Papists, in respect of their lying Signes, and Wonders”, in A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, page 12:
  […] prophane legends (though termed by their Genitours and forefathers, Aureæ Legendæ, Golden Legends) […]
(obsolete, in the plural) The genitals
- 1579, William Langham, The Garden of Health:
  The same […] healeth all paine and swellings of the genitors or stones.

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

genetrix / genitrix (“female genitor”)

Related terms

Anagrams

Negrito, ergotin, negrito, toe ring, toering, trigone

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin genitor.

Noun

genitor (plural genitores)

parent
Synonym: parente

Italian

Verb

genitor (apocopated)

Apocopic form of genitore

Ladin

Noun

genitor m (plural genitores)

parent

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr (“parent”). Equivalent to genō ‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.ni.tor/, [ˈɡɛnɪt̪ɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.ni.tor/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪or]

Noun

genitor m (genitive genitōris, feminine genetrīx or genitrīx); third declension

parent, father, sire, begetter, procreator
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.560:
  “subiit cārī genitōris imāgō”
  “the thought of [my] dear father came to mind”
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.285–286:
  ecce deûm genitor rutilās per nūbila flammās spargit
  Behold the father of the gods scattering his reddening flames through the clouds

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	genitor	genitōrēs
genitive	genitōris	genitōrum
dative	genitōrī	genitōribus
accusative	genitōrem	genitōrēs
ablative	genitōre	genitōribus
vocative	genitor	genitōrēs

Synonyms

pater

Derived terms

genetrīx / genitrīx

Descendants

English: genitor
French: géniteur
Friulian: genitôr
Ido: genitoro
Italian: genitore
Ladino: jenitor (זﬞיניטור)
Portuguese: genitor
Romansch: genitur
Sicilian: genituri, ginituri
Spanish: genitor

References

“genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
genitor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
genitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin genitor.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoʁ/ [ʒe.niˈtoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoʁ/ [ʒe.niˈtoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒe.niˈtoɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɨ.niˈtoɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɨ.niˈto.ɾi/

Noun

genitor m (plural genitores, feminine genitora, feminine plural genitoras)

genitor (biological parent)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French géniteur.

Noun

genitor m (plural genitori)

genitor (biological parent)

Declension

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	genitor	genitorul	genitori	genitorii
genitive-dative	genitor	genitorului	genitori	genitorilor
vocative	genitorule		genitorilor