# γένεσις
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *génetis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis. Synchronically a verbal noun from γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”) +‎ σις (sis).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡé.ne.sis/ → /ˈʝe.ne.sis/ → /ˈʝe.ne.sis/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ɡé.ne.sis/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈɡe.ne.sis/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈʝe.ne.sis/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈʝe.ne.sis/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈʝe.ne.sis/

### Noun

γένεσις • (génesis) f (genitive γενέσεως); third declension
* origin, source
* manner of birth
* creation

#### Related terms

* γεννάω (gennáō)
* γέννησις f (génnēsis)

#### Descendants

* → Latin: genesis
** → Catalan: gènesi (learned)
** → Dutch: genese (learned)
*** → Indonesian: genesa
** → English: genesis (learned)
** → French: genèse (semi-learned)
** → Italian: genesi (learned)
** → Spanish: génesis (learned)
** → Norwegian Bokmål: genesis, genese (learned)
** → Norwegian Nynorsk: genesis, genese (learned)
** → Polish: geneza (learned)
** → Turkish: genez (learned)
* Greek: γένεση (génesi)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γίγνομαι (> DER > 5. γένε-σις)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 272-3

### Further reading

* “γένεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “γένεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “γένεσις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* γένεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* γένεσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* γένεσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* G1078 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. birth idem, page 79.creation idem, page 183.generation idem, page 356.growth idem, page 376.nature idem, page 552.origin idem, page 579.procreation idem, page 644.production idem, page 645.propagation idem, page 653.raising idem, page 670.
* γένεσις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Etymology

Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʝe.ne.sis/
* Hyphenation: γέ‧νε‧σις

### Noun

γένεσις • (génesis) f (plural γενέσεις)
* Katharevousa form of γένεση (génesi)

#### Usage notes

* as proper noun Γένεσις (Génesis, “Genesis”) (book of the Bible)

#### Declension

    As in Ancient Greek without the dual number

#### Related terms

* εν τη γενέσει (en ti genései) & in polytonic: ἐν τῇ γενέσει