different between inception vs genesis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incepti?, from inceptus, Perfect passive participle of incipi? (“I begin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?p??n/, /?n?s?p?n/
• Rhymes: -?p??n
• Hyphenation: in?cep?tion

Noun

inception (plural inceptions)

1. The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.

   From its inception, the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.

2. A layering, nesting, or recursion of something.

Coordinate terms

• conception

Derived terms

• -ception
• inception flashback

Related terms

• incept
• inceptual
• incipient

Translations

See also

• from the get-go

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.