# generate
## English
### Etymology 1

From Latin generō (“beget, procreate, produce”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix), from genus (“a kind, race, family”, gener- in compounds) +‎ -ō; see genus. Compare Italian generare, French générer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, gender (“engender, breed, copulate”)).

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/
* (US) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ɚ.eɪt/
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* (Indic) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒen(a)reːʈ/

#### Verb

generate (third-person singular simple present generates, present participle generating, simple past and past participle generated)
* (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
    The discussion generated an uproar.
** 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 126:The Ecclesiastical Commission was generated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold.
** 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.
** 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
* (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
    Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to water generates heat.
* (transitive) To procreate, beget.
    They generated many offspring.
* (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
    Rotating a circle generates a sphere.
* (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
** 1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers:Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.

##### Synonyms

* (bring into being): bring about, create, engender, make, produce, spawn

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “bring into being”): abrogate, annihilate, degenerate, extinguish, obliterate, ungenerate
* (antonym(s) of “produce as a result of a chemical or physical process”): erase

##### Coordinate terms

* (bring into being): augment, foster, extend, grow

##### Derived terms

* autogenerate
* cogenerate
* congenerate
* generatability
* generatable
* misgenerate
* overgenerate
* pregenerate
* regenerate
* self-generating
* undergenerate

##### Related terms

* generable
* general
* generation
* generative
* generic
* genus

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin generātus, perfect passive participle of generō (“beget, procreate, produce”). See Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

#### Adjective

generate (not comparable)
* (rare) generated, begotten
** 1965, R. A. Norris, God & World in Early Chrisian Theology, volume ii. 67:It poses the thorny problem of the status of the Logos. Is he generate or ingenerate?.. Justin replies that he is generate—but in a special sense.
** 1543 (1464), John Hardyng, Chronicle of John Hardyng, page 282:Edwarde his sonne & heire first generate..Crouned was in all royall estate.

### Further reading

* “generate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “generate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* teenager, Green Tea, green tea, renegate, Tea Green, teen-ager

## Italian
### Verb

generate
* inflection of generare:
** second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person plural imperative
** feminine plural past participle

### Anagrams

* argentee, reagente

## Latin
### Participle

generāte
* vocative masculine singular of generātus

## Spanish
### Verb

generate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of generar combined with te