The corpus record — Latin

genesis

genesis · f

generation

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Where it lives

De Virginibus Velandis 3 · 5.38/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 2 · 1.8/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3 · 0.43/10k

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

What it meant

gĕnĕsis — Lewis & Short

gĕnĕsis, is, f., = ge/nesis,

I generation, birth, creation.

I Lit.: in basi (statuae Minervae) quod caelatum est, Pandoras genesin appellavit (Phidias), Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 19. —

B Genesis, the name of the first book of Moses (the history of the creation), Tert. de Or. 6.—

II Transf., the star that is rising at one's birth, a natal-star, nativity, horoscope: inspecta genesi, Juv. 6, 579: nota mathematicis genesis tua, id. 14, 248: quod vulgo crederetur (Mettius) genesim habere imperatoriam, Suet. Vesp. 14; id. Dom. 10.

In the wild

Genesi Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.21.p1
Genesis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.40
genesim Petronius, Satyricon 39
Genesim Tertullian, Adversus Praxean 5
Genesi Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 8
Genesis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.1

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.