engendering, producing, birth
engendering, producing, E. IA 1065 (lyr., codd.); γ. καὶ τόκος Pl. Smp. 206e; birth, IG 2(2).1368.130, v.l. in Ev.Luc. 1.14.
2 production
production, ἀγαθῶν Arist. Pol. 1332a18 (pl.).
The corpus record
γένν-ησις
gennesis · ἡ
engendering, producing
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Where it lives
- Symposium 4 · 2.29/10k
- Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
- Regnorum IV 1 · 0.58/10k
- Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
- Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
- Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
- Enneads 4 · 0.19/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
- Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- γέννησις · gennēsis Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1168a (DIORISIS sentence 3279)
- γεννήσεως · gennēseōs Aristotle, Politics 1335a (DIORISIS sentence 2896)
- γεννήσεως · gennēseōs Aristotle, Politics 1335b (DIORISIS sentence 2927)
- γεννήσεσιν · gennēsesin Plato, Laws 631
- γεννήσεως · gennēseōs Plato, Laws 636
- γεννήσεων · gennēseōn Plato, Republic 5.461 (DIORISIS sentence 3070)
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Where it came from
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