The corpus record

γενέτ-ης

genetes · ὁ

begetter, ancestor

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Where it lives

Ion 4 · 4.37/10k
Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Laws 10 · 0.97/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

begetter, ancestor, father, the tomb of my fathers, parents, author

begetter, ancestor, E. Or. 1011 (anap.), Call. Epigr. 23.2; father, IG 3.1335, 12(7).115 (Amorgos); γενέται καὶ πατρὶς ἔχουσιν ὀστέα, i.e. the tomb of my fathers, BMus.Inscr. 2.179, al.: in pl., parents, IG 4.682 (Hermione): generally, author, Epigr.Gr. 979.4 (Philae).

2 son

son, ὁ Διὸς γ. S. OT 472; ὁ ἐμὸς γ. E. Ion 916 (lyr.).

as Adj., = γενέθλιος, θεοί A. Supp. 77 (lyr.), E. Ion 1130.

2 produced

produced, ὁ Νεῖλος θέρει γ. Olymp. in Mete. 94.9.

In the wild

γεννήτωρ · gennētōr Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 206
γενέται · genetai Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 77–78
γενέτωρ · genetōr Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 132)
γενέτωρ · genetōr Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 152)
γεννητῶν · gennētōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2752)
γεννητῶν · gennētōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2751)

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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.

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