The corpus record

γενν-άδας

gennadas · ὁ

noble, generous

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Where it lives

Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

γενν-άδας · genn-adas — LSJ

noble, generous, highly bred, notable

noble, generous, χρηστὸς καὶ γ. Ar. Ra. 179; γ. καὶ πρᾷος Pl. Phdr. 243c, cf. Arist. EN 1100b32; highly bred, ἐπὶ τῶν γενναδῶν ἵππων Polem.Phgn. 78; notable, c. inf., Luc. Hist.Conscr. 33.

In the wild

γεννάδας · gennadas Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1100b (DIORISIS sentence 286)
γεννάδας · gennadas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2880)
γεννάδα · gennada Plato, Charmides 155
γεννάδας · gennadas Plato, Phaedrus 243 (DIORISIS sentence 330)

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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