different between gen vs gena

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: Jen

Etymology 1

Clipping of general

Noun

gen (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Britain, informal) Information.
   • 2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero

     Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.

2. (birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.
3. (fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.

Synonyms

• (fan fiction): genfic

See also

• genned in
• gen up

Etymology 2

Noun

gen (plural gens)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gen

Etymology 3

Shortened from generate and generator.

Verb

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

1. To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.

Noun

gen (plural gens)

1. (slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).

   Synonym: genny

Etymology 4

Shortened from genetic engineering

Verb

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

1. (science fiction) To genetically engineer.

Etymology 5

Etymology unknown. Possibilities include:

• Clipping of argent
• Clipping of generalise, from back slang for English shilling.

Noun

gen (plural gens)

1. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A shilling.

Etymology 6

Clipping of generation.

Noun

gen (plural gens)

1. (informal) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.

Derived terms

• next-gen

Anagrams

• ENG, Eng., eng, neg, neg.

Catalan

Etymology

From German Gen

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /???n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /???n/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d??en/

Noun

gen m (plural gens)

1. gene

Related terms

• genètic
• genètica
• genetista
• gènic
• genoma
• genotip

Czech

Etymology

From German Gen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???n]
• Hyphenation: gen
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

gen m inan

1. gene

Declension

Related terms

• genový
• genetika
• genetický

Further reading

• gen in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• gen in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Gen, from Ancient Greek ????? (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of ???????? (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication.

Noun

gen n (singular definite genet, plural indefinite gener)

1. (genetics) gene

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

gen

1. imperative of genne

References

• “gen” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From German Gen, from Ancient Greek ????? (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of ???????? (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/

Noun

gen n (plural genen)

1. gene

Anagrams

• eng

German

Etymology

From Middle High German g?n, gein, from gegen with elision of intervocalic -g- (compare Getreide, Maid). Doublet of German gegen (“against”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?n/, /??n/
• Homophones: gehn, Gen (according to the first pronunciation)

Preposition

gen (governs the accusative)

1. (literary, somewhat dated) in the direction; to; towards (a place or time)

Synonyms

• (in) Richtung (place); gegen (time)

Further reading

• “gen” in Duden online

Haitian Creole

Verb

gen

1. Contraction of genyen.

Icelandic

Etymology

From German Gen

Noun

gen n (genitive singular gens, nominative plural gen)

1. gene

Declension

Japanese

Noun

gen

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Mandarin

Romanization

gen

1. Nonstandard spelling of g?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gén.
3. Nonstandard spelling of g?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of gèn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Preposition

gen

1. Alternative form of gain (“against”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gen n (definite singular genet, indefinite plural gener, definite plural gena or genene)

1. (biology) a gene

Usage notes

• Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine. The form genen was then made obsolete.

References

• “gen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gen n (definite singular genet, indefinite plural gen, definite plural gena)

1. (biology) a gene

Usage notes

• Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine. The forms genen, genar, and genane were then made obsolete.

References

• “gen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?n/

Adverb

??n

1. still, yet
2. again, further

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??en/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *g?enom.

Noun

gen n or f

1. smile, laugh
2. sport, levity

Inflection

The Dictionary of the Irish Language believes that this was a u-stem, while Matasovi? disputes this classification due to a lack of u-infected attestations, declaring it an o-stem. All forms except the nominative are unattested. Both possibilities will be presented here.

Derived terms

• gentraige

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gen f

1. sword

Inflection

Mutation

References

Old Occitan

Adjective

gen m (feminine singular genta, masculine plural gens, feminine plural gentas)

1. attractive; pleasing; nice; fair; pleasant
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour^(Wikisource)

     Lo gens tems de pascor

     The pleasant time of Easter

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “genitus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 40, page 103

Polish

Etymology

From German Gen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/

Noun

gen m inan

1. gene

Declension

Further reading

• gen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin genus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??en/
• Rhymes: -en

Noun

gen n (plural genuri)

1. gender
2. type, sort, kind
3. way, style, manner
4. (biological category) genus, species, family

Synonyms

• (gender): sex
• (type, kind, way): fel, stil
• (species): specie

Spanish

Etymology

From German Gen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xen/, [?x?n]

Noun

gen m (plural genes)

1. gene

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gegn (“straight, direct”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /je?n/

Adjective

gen (comparative genare, superlative genast)

1. gain; short, direct

Related terms

• gena
• genväg

Etymology 2

From German Gen

Noun

gen c

1. gene

Declension

Related terms

• genetik
• genom

Anagrams

• eng.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English again

Adverb

gen

1. again

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *g?? (“wide, broad”).

Cognate withYakut ???? (kie?, “wide”), Bashkir ??? (kiñ), Kazakh ??? (keñ), etc.

Adjective

gen (comparative daha gen, superlative en gen)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) wide

Synonyms

• geni?

Antonyms

• dar

Etymology 2

Noun

gen (definite accusative geni, plural genler)

1. (colloquial) A field that wasn't plowed for several years.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French gene.

Noun

gen (definite accusative geni, plural genler)

1. (biology) gene

Declension

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• gien

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [z?n??], [??n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [j????], [?????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [j????], [?????]
• Phonetic: gien, gen

Noun

gen

1. gene

Note

This is one of the rare cases in which a word's pronunciation differs from its spelling.

Vurës

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/

Verb

gen

1. to eat

Welsh

Pronoun

gen

1. first-person singular of gan
2. second-person singular of gan

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *i?niperus, from Latin i?niperus. Cognate with Icelandic einir, Faroese eini(ber), Danish ene, Swedish en, Norwegian eine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²je?n/, /²je??/

  Rhymes: -è?n

Noun

gen m

1. juniper

Derived terms

• genber
• genlag

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *qe?n? (“arm”). Cognate with Thai ??? (k???n), Northern Thai ????, Lao ??? (kh?n), Lü ??? (?aen), Tai Dam ???, Shan ???? (kh?en).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ke?n??/
• Tone numbers: gen¹
• Hyphenation: gen

Noun

gen (old orthography gen)

1. (anatomy) arm

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?en?/

Verb

gen

1. (transitive) to say

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”). Doublet of chin.

Noun

gena (plural genae)

1. (zoology) The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
2. (entomology) The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
3. (entomology) The part of the head below the compound eyes of Diptera, or an analagous part of the head of larvae without compound eyes.

Anagrams

• Ange, Egan, Gean, agen, gean, nega-

Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *genus (“jaw, cheek, mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énus (“cheek, jaw, chin”). Compare Welsh gen, Old Irish gin, giun, Latin gena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ena?/

Noun

gen? f

1. cheek

Declension

Icelandic

Noun

gena

1. indefinite genitive plural of gen

Italian

Etymology

From Latin gena (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???.na/
• Rhymes: -?na
• Hyphenation: gè?na

Noun

gena f (plural gene) (obsolete, literary)

1. cheek

   Synonym: guancia

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *?énu-, *?énus (“chin, jaw, cheek”).

Cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (génus), Sanskrit ??? (hánu), Persian ????? (?âne), Tocharian A ?anwem, Old Armenian ????? (cnawt), Lithuanian žandas, Welsh gen, and Old English ?inn (English chin).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??e.na/, [???nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??e.na/, [?d????n?]

Noun

gena f (genitive genae); first declension

1. cheek
2. eye socket
3. (rare) eye or eyelid

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cheek): bucca

Descendants

• Aromanian: dzeanã, dziane
• Italian: gena
• Romanian: gean?

References

• gena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• genene (neuter and masculine)

Noun

gena n or m

1. definite neuter plural of gen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• genane

Noun

gena n or m

1. definite neuter plural of gen

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jíng?da.

Verb

-géna

1. to enter, to go into [+locative]

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d??ena]

Noun

gena f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gen?

Swedish

Etymology

From the adjective gen (“straight, through”), from Old Swedish gen, from Old Norse gegn, from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“against”).

Verb

gena (present genar, preterite genade, supine genat, imperative gena)

1. to take a short cut

Conjugation

Related terms

• gen
• genväg

Anagrams

• Agne, agen, ange, egna