genitor

From Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, geneteur, from Latin genitor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr; the Latin is also equivalent to genō +‎ -tor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtə(ɹ)/

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genitor (plural genitors)

1. a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
2. a generator; an originator
   • 1616, Richard Sheldon, “A Briefe Prelude, Shewing the Pseudo-Christianisme of Papists, in respect of their lying Signes, and Wonders”, in A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, page 12:

     […] prophane legends (though termed by their Genitours and forefathers, Aureæ Legendæ, Golden Legends) […]

3. (obsolete, in the plural) The genitals
   • 1579, William Langham, The Garden of Health:

     The same […] healeth all paine and swellings of the genitors or stones.

• biofather
• biomother
• bioparent
• birthfather
• birthmother
• birthparent

• genetrix / genitrix (“female genitor”)

• progenitor
• progenitrix

• Negrito, ergotin, negrito, toe ring, toering, trigone

From Latin genitor.

genitor (plural genitores)

1. parent

   Synonym: parente

genitor (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of genitore

genitor m (plural genitores)

1. parent

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tōr (“parent”). Equivalent to genō +‎ -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛ.nɪ.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.ni.t̪or]

genitor m (genitive genitōris, feminine genetrīx or genitrīx); third declension

1. parent, father, sire, begetter, procreator
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.560:

     “subiit cārī genitōris imāgō”

     “the thought of [my] dear father came to mind”

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.285–286:

     ecce deûm genitor rutilās per nūbila flammās spargit

     Behold the father of the gods scattering his reddening flames through the clouds

Third-declension noun.

• pater

• genetrīx / genitrīx

• “genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “genitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "genitor", 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)
• genitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261

Learned borrowing from Latin genitor.

genitor m (plural genitores, feminine genitora, feminine plural genitoras)

1. genitor (biological parent)

Borrowed from French géniteur.

genitor m (plural genitori)

1. genitor (biological parent)