palingenesis

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/
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• General-American: pălĭnjĕnəsəs
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• General-American: /ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnəsəs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnɪsiːz/
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• General-American: /ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnəsiz/
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Probably a variant of palingenesia + -genesis (suffix meaning ‘origin; production’). Palingenesia is a learned borrowing from Late Latin palingenesia (“rebirth; regeneration”), from Koine Greek παλιγγενεσία (palingenesía, “rebirth”), from Ancient Greek πᾰ́λῐν (pắlĭn, “again, anew, once more”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwel- (“to turn (end-over-end); to revolve around; to dwell, sojourn”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “creation; manner of birth; origin, source”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh1- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). By surface analysis, palin- + genesis. Sense 2 (“apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species”) is from German Palingenesis; while sense 3 (“regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks”) is from Swedish palingenes. Both are derived from the Greek word: see above. The plural form is probably from palingenesis + Latin genesēs (a plural form of genesis).

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: palingeneziya — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Bulgarian: прераждане (preraždane) — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Catalan: palingenèsia — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Finnish: palingenesis — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Finnish: palingenesia — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• French: palingénésie — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Greek: παλιγγενεσία (palingenesía) — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Italian: palingenesi — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Lithuanian: palingenezė — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Macedonian: прероду́вање (prerodúvanje) — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Macedonian: прера́ѓање (preráǵanje) — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Norwegian Nynorsk: palingenese — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Russian: палингене́зия (palingenézija) — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Spanish: palingénesis — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Spanish: palingenesia — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Swedish: palingenesi — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Ukrainian: палінгенезія (palinhenezija) — spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul
• Catalan: palingenèsia — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Finnish: palingenesis — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Finnish: palingenesia — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• French: palingénésie — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Greek: παλιγγενεσία (palingenesía) — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Italian: palingenesi — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Lithuanian: palingenezė — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Norwegian Nynorsk: palingenese — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Romanian: palingeneză — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Romanian: palingenezie — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Spanish: palingénesis — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Spanish: palingenesia — apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species
• Finnish: palingeneesi — regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks