different between genesis vs development

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.

English

Alternative forms

• developement (obsolete)

Etymology

First use 1756, analyzable as develop +? -ment, from French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??v?l?pm?nt/

Noun

development (countable and uncountable, plural developments)

1. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.

2. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.

3. (countable) Something which has developed.

4. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
5. (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
6. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).

7. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

8. (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
10. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
11. (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.

Derived terms

• arrested development
• career development
• community development
• development aid

Translations

Further reading

• "development" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 103.