genitus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of gignō. An analogical formation that was created from the verb root as a regular third-conjugation perfect participle. The original participle was nātus (earlier gnātus), which came to belong to a different verb.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡe.ni.tus/, [ˈɡɛnɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.ni.tus/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnit̪us]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | genitus | genita | genitum | genitī | genitae | genita | |
| Genitive | genitī | genitae | genitī | genitōrum | genitārum | genitōrum | |
| Dative | genitō | genitō | genitīs | ||||
| Accusative | genitum | genitam | genitum | genitōs | genitās | genita | |
| Ablative | genitō | genitā | genitō | genitīs | |||
| Vocative | genite | genita | genitum | genitī | genitae | genita | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old French: gent
References
- “genitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- genitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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