The corpus record

γενν-ητικός

gennetikos

generative, productive

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Where it lives

Enneads 16 · 0.75/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

γενν-ητικός · genn-ētikos — LSJ

generative, productive, generative, productive of

generative, productive, ἡ πρᾶξις ἡ γ. Arist. HA 539b21; ψυχὴ γ. Id. de An. 416b25: c. gen., generative or productive of . . , τινός Epicur. Ep. 1p.11U., Arist. GA 726b21, etc.; ὕλην σπέρματος -κήν Epicur. Nat.Herc. 908.1.

2 able to procreate

of men or animals, able to procreate, Arist. HA 544b26, de An. 432b24.

In the wild

γεννητικὰ · gennētika Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 702)
γεννητικοὶ · gennētikoi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8894)
γεννητικόν · gennētikon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6205)
γεννητικὸν · gennētikon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6537)
γεννητικὸν · gennētikon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.9 (DIORISIS sentence 8163)
γεννητικοῦ · gennētikou Plotinus, Enneads 1.1 (DIORISIS sentence 60)

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Where it came from

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