The corpus record — Latin

gener

a daughter's husband

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Where it lives

Epicedion in Patrem 2 · 52.77/10k
Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 36.5/10k
Parentalia 7 · 26.93/10k
Avidius Cassius 7 · 26.84/10k
Didius Julianus 4 · 25.16/10k
De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
Timotheus 1 · 15.36/10k
Apocolocyntosis 4 · 14.77/10k
Conon 1 · 13.62/10k
Phoenissae 5 · 12.23/10k

Densest 12 of 192 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

gĕner — Lewis & Short

gĕner, ĕri (archaic

I dat. plur. generibus, Att. ap. Non. 487, 29), m. root GEN, v. gigno, a daughter's husband, a son-in-law.

I Lit.: cum soceris generi non lavantur, Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129; cf.: mei viri gener, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 87: generum nostrum ire cum adfini suo, id. Trin. 3, 1, 21: et gener et affines placent, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 63; cf. id. ib. 4, 8, 25; id. And. 3, 3, 39; id. Hec. 4, 1, 22: C. Fannium et Quintum Scaevolam, generos Laelii, Cic. Rep. 1, 12; id. Lael. 1, 3; 8, 26; id. Att. 4, 2, 4; Caes. B. G. 5, 56, 3; Quint. 6 praef. § 13; Hor. C. 2, 4, 13; Ov. F. 3, 202; Vulg. 1 Reg. 18, 18 et saep.—Also, a daughter's bridegroom, Hor. Epod. 6, 13; Verg. A. 2, 344; cf.: generi et nurus appellatione sponsus quoque et sponsa continetur, Dig. 38, 10, 6.—

II Transf.

A The husband of a granddaughter or greatgranddaughter, for progener, qui conlegam et generum adsciverat Sejanum, Tac. A. 5, 6; 6, 8; cf.: generi appellatione et neptis et proneptis tam ex filio quam ex filia editarum, ceterarumque maritos contineri manifestum est, Dig. 50, 16, 136.—

B A sister's husband, brother-in-law, Just. 18, 4; Nep. Paus. 1.—

C Comically, of a daughter's paramour: Villius in Fausta Sullae gener, etc., Hor. S. 1, 2, 64.

In the wild

generum Statius, Achilleis 2.75
generum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.19.p1
generum Cicero, De Oratore 1.190
generum Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.5
generum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.2.p4
generum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.8.p6

6 of 910 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. gener (scan p. 294; entry #4598). Root candidates: *g’ena-, *g’né-.

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