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genitor - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun One who produces or creates.
noun Anthropology A natural father or mother.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who procreates; a sire; a progenitor.
noun plural The genitals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who begets; a generator; an originator.
noun obsolete The genitals.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
noun a generator ; an originator – Sheldon
noun obsolete, in the plural The genitals – Holland
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a natural father or mother
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English genitour , from Old French genitor , from Latin, from genitus , past participle of gignere , to beget; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin genitor , from genitus , past participle of the verb gignō + agent noun suffix -or .
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Examples
Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor , meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.
The Feast of St. Joseph Mike L 2007
Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor , meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.
Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007
Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor , meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.
The (belated) Feast of St. Joseph Mike L 2006
Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor , meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.
Archive 2006-03-01 Mike L 2006
Thus, the female husband had rights to the domestic services of her "wife" and was the legitimate "father" of the wife's offspring, regardless of who the genitor might be.
Judith Shapiro: Proposals of "Marriage" 2009
Most of the pieces are of secular origin, but the Codex also has arrangements for organ of the Mass Cunctipotens genitor Deus.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
Ut semel dicam, una gula est omnium morborum mater, etiamsi alius est genitor .
Anatomy of Melancholy 2007
Tilney nuper de Shelleigh in Comitatu Suffolci�, pater et genitor
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
Yolonda speculated about her genitor , whom she could only remember sometimes.
Yolonda's Genius Carol Fenner 2001
“I can hardly remember my genitor ,” she mused aloud, testing the word in her mouth.
Yolonda's Genius Carol Fenner 2001
Gammerstang commented on the word genitor
(noun) - (1) One who procreates; a sire; a father.
--Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c.1850
(2) A testicle; the testicles; in later use for genitals. Adapted from Old French genitoir. In adjective use as members genitors late 1400s.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901
January 16, 2018