generatio

generō +‎ -tiō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡɛ.nɛˈraː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒe.neˈrat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

generātiō f (genitive generātiōnis); third declension

1. a generation
   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8:

     Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]

     But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]

2. a begetting
3. offspring
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Jerome, 1 John 5.18:

     Scimus quia omnis qui natus est ex Deo, non peccat : sed generatio Dei conservat eum, et malignus non tangit eum. […]

     We know because each whose birth is from God, doesn't sin, but the offspring of God uphold him, and the wicked one doesn't touch him. […]

Third-declension noun.

• generātor

• “generatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "generatio", 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)
• generatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.