The corpus record — Latin

generatio

generatio · f

a begetting

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Where it lives

Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 16 · 27.43/10k
De Fide Catholica 4 · 20.75/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5 · 0.71/10k
Naturalis Historia 28 · 0.71/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

gĕnĕrātĭo — Lewis & Short

gĕnĕrātĭo, ōnis, f.genero,

I a begetting, generating, generation (post-Aug.): piscium, Plin. 9, 50, 74, § 157; 8, 47, 72, § 187: deorum = qeogoni/a, a poem of Hesiod, Lact. 1, 5, 8: Adam, Vulg. Gen. 5, 1: Christi, id. Matt. 1, 1.—

II Transf., a generation of men, Ambros. Off. Ministr. 1, 25, 121.—In plur., Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 142 al.; Vulg. Eph. 3, 5 et saep.

In the wild

generatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.8.p71
generatione Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p25
generationi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.50
generatione Boethius, Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 6
generationem Tertullian, Ad Nationes 2.3
generationibus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.8.p3

6 of 69 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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