different between devising vs genesis

English

Noun

devising (countable and uncountable, plural devisings)

1. the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will
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     I take some kind of comfort in the inexhaustibility of the devisings of nature, that it can keep coming up with new things.

Synonyms

• fashioning, making

Verb

devising

1. present participle of devise

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis (“birth, production”), from *?enh?-. Related to Ancient Greek ???????? (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind, gens, and jati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???n.?.s?s/

Noun

genesis (plural geneses)

1. The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

   Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law.

Translations

Further reading

• genesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• genesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Giesens, seeings, signees

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (génesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis (“birth, production”), from *?enh?-.

Noun

genesis f (genitive genesis or genese?s or genesios); third declension

1. generation, creation, nativity
2. birth

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• Catalan: gènesi
• English: genesis
• Spanish: génesis

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (génesis, “origin, creation, beginning”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis (“birth, production”), from *?enh?-.

Noun

genesis m (definite singular genesisen, indefinite plural genesisar, definite plural genesisane)

1. creation, genesis, origin

References

• “genesis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.