The corpus record — Latin

genitor

genitor · m

a begetter

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Where it lives

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Praefatiunculae 2 · 36.5/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 4 · 30.84/10k
Epicedion in Patrem 1 · 26.39/10k
Epistularum 2 · 25/10k
Phoenissae 10 · 24.46/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 21.71/10k
Parentalia 5 · 19.24/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 5 · 19.03/10k
Hercules 13 · 17.08/10k
Phaedra 12 · 16.87/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 2 · 16.67/10k

Densest 12 of 76 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. gĕnĭtor — Lewis & Short

gĕnĭtor, ōris, m.root GEN, gigno,

I a begetter, parent, father, creator, sire (syn.: pater, parens).

I Lit. (class.): quo (animo) nihil ab optimo et praestantissimo genitore melius procreatum, Cic. Univ. 8: imitantes genitorem et effectorem sui, id. ib. 13: dubio genitore creatus, Ov. M. 5, 145: Pelopis, i. e. Tantalus, Hor. C. 1, 28, 7: deūm, i. e. Jupiter, Ov. Am. 1, 13, 45; id. M. 14, 91; the same, Saturnius, Cic. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64: profundi, of Neptune, as ruler of the sea, Ov. M. 11, 202; and genitor alone, Verg. A. 1, 155; of Æneas, id. ib. 1, 716; of Mars: bellorum, Sil. 3, 126; of the deified Romulus: o Romule, Romule die! O pater, o genitor, Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 117 Vahl.); so, genitorque Quirine Urbis, Ov. M. 15, 862 (cf.: hujus urbis parens Romulus, Cic. Div. 1, 2, 3).—

II Transf. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): qua rapitur praeceps Rhodanus genitore Lemanno, source, Aus. Urb. 13, 7: adsciscet nova, quae genitor produxerit usus, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 119: o fraudum genitor, Sil. 13, 738; cf.: Graeci vitiorum omnium genitores, Plin. 15, 4, 5, § 19.

2. genitor — Walde–Hofmann

genitor, -öris m. „Erzeuger, Vater“ (seit Enn., dicht. gegenüber pater, vgl. Köhm Altlat. Forsch. 111; seit Lucr. und Catull [Kroll zu 63,59] Pl. -öres wie patres auch „Eltern“, spätl. auch „Väter“), genebrix (-e-, Meister KZ. 45, 1831), -jeis 1. „Zeugerin, Mutter" (seit. Enn.) ai. janitär- „Erzeuger, Vater", gr. yeverwp, -opog u. Yevezip, -Npos ds., arm. enau£ ds. (*Gens-tl-a, Meillet Mel. Mikkola 158. gegen Bugge … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. genitor, p. 623]

In the wild

6 of 434 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. genitor (scan p. 294; entry #4602). Root candidates: *gena-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. genitor (scan p. 623; entry #1219).

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