to be the ancestor of the human race
to be the ancestor of the human race, ὁ γεναρχῶν ἄνθρωπος (of the Gnostic πρωτάνθρωπος) lamb.Myst. 10.5.
The corpus record
γεναρχ-έω
genarcheo
to be the ancestor of the human race
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.