-genesis

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh1- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh1tis Proto-Hellenic *génetis Ancient Greek γένεσῐς (génesĭs)der. Latinbor. English -genesis Via Latin, from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis). The simplex genesis is in use as a common noun (as opposed to Genesis, the name of the biblical book) since the late 16th century, as a suffix since the mid 17th century (attested in epigenesis and palingenesis). Influenced by French -génésie and German -genese and productive in scientific vocabulary from the 19th century on.

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: -генеза (-geneza) — origin
• Finnish: -geneesi — origin
• French: -genèse — origin
• Galician: -xénese — origin
• Greek: -γένεση (-génesi) — origin
• Portuguese: -génese — origin
• Bulgarian: -генеза (-geneza) — production
• Finnish: -geneesi — production
• French: -genèse — production
• Galician: -xénese — production
• Greek: -γένεση (-génesi) — production