different between genesis vs growth

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.

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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

Etymology

From grow +? -th. Compare Old Frisian gr?d ("meadow, pasture"; > North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”)), Middle High German gruote, gruot (“greens, fresh growth, shoot”), Old Norse gróðr ("growth, crop"; > Faroese grøði, Danish grøde (“fruits”), Swedish gröda (“crop, harvest”)). More at grow.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)

1. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.

2. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
3. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
4. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

Synonyms

• (increase in size): enlargement, expansion, increase, increment
• (act of growing): development, maturation
• (something that grows or has grown): vegetation
• (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): outgrowth, cancer, mass

Antonyms

• (increase in size): contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction
• (act of growing): nondevelopment

Hyponyms

• (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): tumor

Derived terms

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