γενετ-ή · genet-ē — LSJ
the hour of birth
= γενεά II.3, ἐκ γενετῆς from the hour of birth, Il. 24.535, Od. 18.6; εὐθὺς ἐκ γ. Arist. EN 1144b6; opp. διʼ ἔθος, ib. 1154a33; later ἀπὸ γενετῆς Iamb. VP 30.171.
The corpus record
γενετή
genete · ἡ
the hour of birth
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Where it lives
- Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
- Categories 1 · 1/10k
- Eudemian Ethics 2 · 0.77/10k
- John 1 · 0.65/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 3 · 0.53/10k
- Leviticus 1 · 0.53/10k
- Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- γενετῆς · genetēs Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 199)
- γενετῆς · genetēs Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 16)
- γενετῆς · genetēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2
- γενετῆς · genetēs Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 8
- γενετῆς · genetēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1144b (DIORISIS sentence 2200)
- γενετῆς · genetēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1154a (DIORISIS sentence 2593)
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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.