genesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪn.ə.sɪs/
rhymes: -ɛnəsɪs
Forms: form: geneses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning”). Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind, gens, and jati.
Senses: examples: text: Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.
text: The genesis of the Chinese bronze mirror can be traced far back into the Chou dynasty. Some pieces that may possibly date from the eighth century b.c., but certainly predate the year 655 b.c., were unearthed in 1956–1957 at Shang-ts’ung-ling near San-men-hsia in western Honan Province.
ref: 1980, Helmut Brinker, Eberhard Fischer, Treasures from the Rietberg Museum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:
glosses: The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
Derived terms: sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: acrometagenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: anthogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: biogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: cisgenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: cogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: collaterogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: corticogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: cosmogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: costamerogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: diagenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: digenetic
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: endogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: entheogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: eogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: estrogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: eugenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: Genesis Planet
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: genetic
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: glottogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: glycerogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: glycogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: gonadogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: haematogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: hypergenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: isogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: karyogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: kinetogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: leptogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: lithogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: lobulogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: macrogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: magnetogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: merogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: microgenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: mucogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: myelinogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: neogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: oögenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: ovigenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: pangenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: perigenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: Planet Genesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: progenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: radiogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: regenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: soil genesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: speleogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: teleogenesis
sense: some may be derived from suffix -genesis
word: thrombogenesis