# genitor
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr; the Latin is also equivalent to gignō +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

genitor (plural genitors)
* a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
* a generator; an originator
** 1616, Richard Sheldon, “A Briefe Prelude, Shewing the Pseudo-Christianisme of Papists, in respect of their lying Signes, and Wonders”, in A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, page 12:[…] prophane legends (though termed by their Genitours and forefathers, Aureæ Legendæ, Golden Legends) […]
* (obsolete, in the plural) The genitals
** 1579, William Langham, The Garden of Health:The same […] healeth all paine and swellings of the genitors or stones.

#### Synonyms

* biofather
* biomother
* bioparent
* birthfather
* birthmother
* birthparent

#### Coordinate terms

* genetrix / genitrix (“female genitor”)

#### Related terms

* progenitor
* progenitrix

### Anagrams

* Negrito, ergotin, negrito, toe ring, toering, trigone

## Interlingua
### Etymology

From Latin genitor.

### Noun

genitor (plural genitores)
* parent
    Synonym: parente

## Italian
### Verb

genitor (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of genitore

## Ladin
### Noun

genitor m (plural genitores)
* parent

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr (“parent”). Equivalent to genō +‎ -tor.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈɡe.ni.tor/, [ˈɡɛnɪt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒe.ni.tor/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪or]

### Noun

genitor m (genitive genitōris, feminine genetrīx or genitrīx); third declension
* parent, father, sire, begetter, procreator
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.560:“subiit cārī genitōris imāgō”“the thought of [my] dear father came to mind”
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.285–286:ecce deûm genitor rutilās per nūbila flammās spargitBehold the father of the gods scattering his reddening flames through the clouds

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | genitor | genitōrēs |
| Genitive | genitōris | genitōrum |
| Dative | genitōrī | genitōribus |
| Accusative | genitōrem | genitōrēs |
| Ablative | genitōre | genitōribus |
| Vocative | genitor | genitōrēs |

#### Synonyms

* pater

#### Derived terms

* genetrīx / genitrīx

#### Descendants

* English: genitor
* French: géniteur
* Friulian: genitôr
* Ido: genitoro
* Italian: genitore
* Ladino: jenitor (זﬞיניטור)
* Portuguese: genitor
* Romansch: genitur
* Sicilian: genituri, ginituri
* Spanish: genitor

### References

* “genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* genitor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* genitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin genitor.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒe.niˈtoʁ/ [ʒe.niˈtoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒe.niˈtoʁ/ [ʒe.niˈtoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʒe.niˈtoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʒe.niˈtoʁ/ [ʒe.niˈtoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʒe.niˈtoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨ.niˈtoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨ.niˈtoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨ.niˈto.ɾi/

### Noun

genitor m (plural genitores, feminine genitora, feminine plural genitoras)
* genitor (biological parent)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French géniteur.

### Noun

genitor m (plural genitori)
* genitor (biological parent)