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genre
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French genre (“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (génos)), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os. Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /(d)??n.??/
- (UK) IPA(key): /(d)??n.??/, /(d)??n.??/
- (nonstandard, francophonic) IPA(key): /d???n?/
Noun
genre (plural genres)
- A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
- The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
- The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
- 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (page 38)
- One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
Synonyms
- kind
- type
- class
- See also Thesaurus:class
Derived terms
Related terms
- genre fiction
- genre film
- gender
- general
- generate
- genus
Translations
Anagrams
- Egner, Geren, Green, Green., green, neger, regen
Danish
Etymology
From French genre (“kind, style”), from Latin genus (“type, kind”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??????]
Noun
genre c (singular definite genren, plural indefinite genrer)
- genre, a special type of literature, music or art with its own defining features
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French genre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???n.r?/
- Hyphenation: gen?re
Noun
genre n (plural genres)
- kind, type, genre
Anagrams
- enger, neger, regen
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??enre/, [??e?nre?]
- Rhymes: -enre
- Syllabification: gen?re
Noun
genre
- genre
Declension
Synonyms
- lajityyppi
French
Etymology
From Latin genus (compare stem of the genitive generis), from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (génos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????/
- Homophone: genres
- Hyphenation: genre
Noun
genre m (plural genres)
- kind
- style
- (grammar) gender (of nouns)
- (grammar) voice (of verbs)
- gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc)
- (biology) genus
- look, type
- (archaic, colloquial) the done thing
Derived terms
- BCBG, bon chic bon genre
- cisgenre, transgenre
- en tous genres
- en tout genre
- faire genre
- genre humain
- unique en son genre
Descendants
- ? English: genre
- ? Russian: ???? (žanr)
- ? Kazakh: ???? (janr)
Particle
genre
- (colloquial) like
- Je suis genre rarement enervé.
Further reading
- “genre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- « Genre », un tic de langage dont la signification glisse à mesure que sa popularité augmente, Clara Cini, lemonde.fr, 10 February 2021.
Anagrams
- gêner
- nègre
- règne, régné
Norman
Etymology
From Latin genus, generis, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os (compare Ancient Greek ????? (génos)).
Noun
genre m (plural genres)
- (grammar, etc.) gender
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French genre
Noun
genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrer, definite plural genrene)
- a genre
Synonyms
- sjanger
References
- “genre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “genre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French genre.
Noun
genre m (definite singular genren, indefinite plural genrar, definite plural genrane)
- a genre
Synonyms
- sjanger
References
- “genre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from French genre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /¹?a??r/
- Rhymes: -?r
Noun
genre c
- a genre
Declension
Anagrams
- gener, green, neger
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genus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignere, Old Latin gegnere (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender, genre, and kin.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: j?n’-?s, j?n’-?s, IPA(key): /?d?i?n?s/, /?d??n?s/
- (US) enPR: j?n’-?s, IPA(key): /?d?i?n?s/
- Rhymes: -i?n?s
Noun
genus (plural genera or (both nonstandard) genuses or genusses)
- (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
- A taxon at this rank.
- All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
- Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
- There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
- A group with common attributes.
- (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
- (semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
Usage notes
- (biology, taxonomy, rank in the classification of organisms): See generic name, binomial nomenclature.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
- (topology, graph theory): Euler genus
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- (semantics): differentia
- (biological taxa):
- domain
- kingdom
- phylum/division
- class
- order
- family
- supergenus
- genus
- subgenus, section, series
- species
Further reading
- genus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- genus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Negus, negus
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin genus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?nus/, [???e?nus]
Noun
genus n (plural indefinite genus or genera)
- (biology, taxonomy) genus
- Synonym: slægt
- (grammar) gender
- Synonym: køn
Further reading
- genus on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin genus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??e?.n?s/
- Hyphenation: ge?nus
Noun
genus n (plural genera)
- (botany) a rank in a taxonomic classification, in between family and species.
- Synonym: geslacht
- (botany) a taxon at this rank
- Synonym: geslacht
- (linguistics) gender
- Synonym: geslacht
Derived terms
- subgenus
- supergenus
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??enus/, [??e?nus?]
- Rhymes: -enus
- Syllabification: ge?nus
Noun
genus
- (botany) Synonym of suku (“genus”)
- (topology) genus
- Synonym: suku
Declension
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /??e.nus/, [???n?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?d??e.nus/, [?d????nus]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *genos, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?os (“race”), from Proto-Indo-European *?enh?- (“to produce, beget”); compare also g?ns, from the same root. Cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (génos, “race, stock, kin, kind”), Sanskrit ???? (jánas, “race, class of beings”), Proto-Celtic *genos (“birth; family”), and English kin.
Noun
genus n (genitive generis); third declension
- birth, origin, lineage, descent
- kind, type, class
- species (of animal or plant), race (of people)
- set, group (with common attributes)
- (grammar) gender
- 6th century, Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (attributed): Commentarium de oratione et de octo partibus orationis. In: „Patrologiae cursus completus sive Bibliotheca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium ss. patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad innocentii III tempora floruerunt; […] . Series prima, in qua prodeunt patres, doctores scriptoresque ecclesiae latinae a tertulliano ad gregorium magnum. Accurante J.-P. Migne, cursuum completorum in singulos scientiae ecclesiaticae ramos editore. Patrologiae tomus LXX. Cassiodori tomus posterior. – Magni Aurelii Cassiodori senatoris, viri patricii, consularis, et vivariensis abbatis opera omnia in duos tomos distributa, ad fidem manuscriptiorum codicum emendata et aucta, notis, observationibus et indicibus locupletata, praecedente auctoris vita, quae nunc primum in lucem prodit cum dissertatione de ejus monarchatu. Opera et studio J. Garetii monarchi ordinis sancti Benedicti e congregatione sancti mauri. Nobis autem curantibus accesserunt complexiones in epistolas b. Pauli quas edidit et annotavit scipio Maffeius. Tomus posterior. – Parisiis, venit apud editorem, in via dicta d'amboise, près la barriere d'enfer, ou petit-montrouge. 1847“, p. 1225
- Genera nominum sunt sex: masculinum, ut hic Cato; femininum, ut haec musa; neutrum, ut hoc monile; commune duorum generum, ut hic et haec sacerdos: trium generum, ut hic, et haec, et hoc felix; epicoenon, quod Latine promiscuum dicitur, ut passer, aquila.
- Nouns have six genders: masculine, e.g. hic Cato 'this man Cato'; feminine, e.g. haec musa 'this muse'; neuter, e.g. hoc monile 'this necklace'; common to two genders, e.g. hic et haec sacerdos 'this priest or priestess'; of three genders, e.g. hic, et haec, et hoc felix 'this lucky man, woman or thing'; epicene, called promiscous in Latin, e.g. passer 'sparrow', aquila 'eagle'.
- Genera nominum sunt sex: masculinum, ut hic Cato; femininum, ut haec musa; neutrum, ut hoc monile; commune duorum generum, ut hic et haec sacerdos: trium generum, ut hic, et haec, et hoc felix; epicoenon, quod Latine promiscuum dicitur, ut passer, aquila.
- 16th century, Andreas Semperius (a.k.a. Andreas Sampere, Andreu Sempere): Andreae Semperii Valentini Alcodiani, doctoris medici, prima grammaticae latinae institutio tribus libris explicata, Majorca/Mallorca, 1819, p.19
- Genera nominum, septem sunt. Masculinum, cui praeponitur hic: ut hic Dominus. Foemineum, cui praeponitur haec: ut haec musa. Neutrum, cui praeponuntur hoc: ut hoc templum. Commune, cui praeponuntur hic, & haec: ut hic, & haec Sacerdos. Omne, cui praeponuntur hic, haec, hoc, vel per tres varias voces inflectitur: ut hic, haec, hoc felix, bonus, bona, bonum. Dubium, quod modo masculinum, modo faemineum, apud Oratores etiam invenitur: ut hic, vel haec dies. Promiscuum, in quo sexus uterque per alterum apparet: ut hic passer, haec aquila, hic lepus.
- Nouns have seven genders. Masculine, which you can precede with hic: hic dominus 'this Lord'. Feminine, which you can precede with haec, e.g. haec musa 'this muse'. Neuter, which you can precede with hoc, e.g. hoc templum 'this temple'. Common, which you can precede with hic and haec: hic & haec sacerdos 'this male or female priest'. Universal, which you can precede with all three of hic, haec, hoc, or which vary in three forms, e.g. hic, haec, hoc felix 'this lucky man, woman, thing', hic bonus, haec bona, hoc bonum 'this good man, good woman, good thing'. Doubtful, which in the orators can be found to be sometimes masculine, sometimes feminine, e.g. hic, vel haec dies 'this day'. Promiscuous, in which a gender appears instead of another, e.g. hic passer 'this sparrow' (always masculine), haec aquila 'this eagle' (always feminine), hic lepus 'this rabbit' (always masculine).
- Genera nominum, septem sunt. Masculinum, cui praeponitur hic: ut hic Dominus. Foemineum, cui praeponitur haec: ut haec musa. Neutrum, cui praeponuntur hoc: ut hoc templum. Commune, cui praeponuntur hic, & haec: ut hic, & haec Sacerdos. Omne, cui praeponuntur hic, haec, hoc, vel per tres varias voces inflectitur: ut hic, haec, hoc felix, bonus, bona, bonum. Dubium, quod modo masculinum, modo faemineum, apud Oratores etiam invenitur: ut hic, vel haec dies. Promiscuum, in quo sexus uterque per alterum apparet: ut hic passer, haec aquila, hic lepus.
- 6th century, Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (attributed): Commentarium de oratione et de octo partibus orationis. In: „Patrologiae cursus completus sive Bibliotheca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium ss. patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad innocentii III tempora floruerunt; […] . Series prima, in qua prodeunt patres, doctores scriptoresque ecclesiae latinae a tertulliano ad gregorium magnum. Accurante J.-P. Migne, cursuum completorum in singulos scientiae ecclesiaticae ramos editore. Patrologiae tomus LXX. Cassiodori tomus posterior. – Magni Aurelii Cassiodori senatoris, viri patricii, consularis, et vivariensis abbatis opera omnia in duos tomos distributa, ad fidem manuscriptiorum codicum emendata et aucta, notis, observationibus et indicibus locupletata, praecedente auctoris vita, quae nunc primum in lucem prodit cum dissertatione de ejus monarchatu. Opera et studio J. Garetii monarchi ordinis sancti Benedicti e congregatione sancti mauri. Nobis autem curantibus accesserunt complexiones in epistolas b. Pauli quas edidit et annotavit scipio Maffeius. Tomus posterior. – Parisiis, venit apud editorem, in via dicta d'amboise, près la barriere d'enfer, ou petit-montrouge. 1847“, p. 1225
- (grammar) subtype of word
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Hyponyms
- (grammar, genera nominum): [genus] f?min?num, [genus] mascul?num, [genus] neutrum, genus comm?ne, genus omne
- (grammar, genera verborum): [genus] ?ct?vum, [genus] pass?vum, [genus] neutrum, [genus] comm?ne, [genus] d?p?n?ns, [genus] medium
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
gen?s
- genitive singular of gen?
References
- genus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- genus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- genus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin genus.
Noun
genus m or n (definite singular genusen or genuset, indefinite plural genera or genus, definite plural genera or generaa or genusa or genusane)
- (biology, taxonomy) genus
- (grammar) gender
- (grammar) voice
References
- “genus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
genus n
- (grammar) gender (division of nouns and pronouns)
- (social) gender, sex (social issues of being man or woman)
Usage notes
- Biological gender is called kön. The Latin word genus is used for grammar and more recently for gender studies.
Declension
Synonyms
- (grammar): kön
Related terms
References
- genus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- sugen, unges
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