# genital
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gignō (“to beget, generate”); see genus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnətəl/, /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtəl/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

genital (not comparable)
* Of, or relating to biological reproduction.
* Of, or relating to the genitalia.
** 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:In countless Hollywood movies we see the story of two soldiers or sailors on leave; for them the pursuit of women is simply a way of relieving a genital pressure.
* (psychoanalysis) Of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty.

#### Derived terms

* abdominogenital
* adiposogenital
* adrenogenital
* agenital
* androgenital
* anogenital
* bigenital
* circumgenital
* crurogenital
* extragenital
* faciodigitogenital
* faciogenital
* genital cord
* genital cutting
* genitaled
* genital herpes
* genitalic
* genitality
* genitalization
* genitalize
* genitalless
* genitally
* genital mutilation
* genitalness
* genital organ
* genital tubercle
* genital wart
* genitorture
* hand-foot-genital syndrome
* heterogenital
* homogenital
* intergenital
* intragenital
* male genital mutilation
* male genital mutilator
* nongenital
* oculobuccogenital
* oculogenital
* orogenital
* paragenital
* perigenital
* persistent genital arousal disorder
* postgenital
* pregenital
* rectogenital
* restless genital syndrome
* subgenital
* unigenital
* ureterogenital
* urethrogenital
* urinogenital
* urogenital

#### See also

* female genital mutilation

### Noun

genital (plural genitals)
* (rare, chiefly in the plural) A genital organ.
** 1961, The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis, (Please provide the book title or journal name):( b ) the masturbation [...] served as evidence that his genital was not injured ("fixing feet")
** 1967, Ruth G. Newman, Marjorie M. Keith, The School-centered Life Space Interview, Six Papers:David told of his fears of castration and his concern that his genital was not as large as another boy's on the ward, and perhaps would never be.
** 2013, Susan Isaacs, Childhood and After: Some Essays and Clinical Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164:[…] the anxiety and distress that his genital was dirty, disgusting and dangerous to his mother (myself); the dread of the bad internalized penis and his own faeces and urine.

#### See also

* genitalia

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* atingle, elating, gelatin, langite, tag line, tagline

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ʒə.niˈtal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [d͡ʒe.niˈtal]

### Adjective

genital m or f (masculine and feminine plural genitals)
* genital
    Synonyms: genitori, generador

### Further reading

* “genital”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Galician
### Adjective

genital m or f (plural genitais, reintegrationist norm)
* reintegrationist spelling of xenital

### Noun

genital m (plural genitais, reintegrationist norm)
* reintegrationist spelling of xenital

### Further reading

* “genital” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡeniˈtaːl]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːl

### Adjective

genital (strong nominative masculine singular genitaler, not comparable)
* genital

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “genital” in Duden online
* “genital” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʒe.niˈtaw/ [ʒe.niˈtaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨ.niˈtal/ [ʒɨ.niˈtaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨ.niˈtal/ [ʒɨ.niˈtaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʒɨ.niˈta.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: ge‧ni‧tal

### Adjective

genital m or f (plural genitais, not comparable)
* genital

### Noun

genital m (plural genitais)
* (Usually plural) genital

### Further reading

* “genital” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “genital”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “genital”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French génital, from Latin genitalis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒe.niˈtal/

### Adjective

genital m or n (feminine singular genitală, masculine plural genitali, feminine and neuter plural genitale)
* genital

#### Declension
### Further reading

* genital in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genitālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xeniˈtal/ [xe.niˈt̪al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: ge‧ni‧tal

### Adjective

genital m or f (masculine and feminine plural genitales)
* genital

#### Derived terms

* protector genital

### Noun

genital m (plural genitales)
* (in the plural) genital

#### Further reading

* “genital”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10