γένεσις

From Proto-Hellenic *génetis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis. Synchronically a verbal noun from γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

γένεσις • (génesis) f (genitive γενέσεως); third declension

1. origin, source
2. manner of birth
3. creation

• γεννάω (gennáō)
• γέννησις f (génnēsis)

• English: axiogenesis, genesis
• French: genèse
• Greek: γένεση (génesi)

• γένεσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γένεσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γένεσις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γένεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• γένεσις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• γένεσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• G1078 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • birth idem, page 79.
  • creation idem, page 183.
  • generation idem, page 356.
  • growth idem, page 376.
  • nature idem, page 552.
  • origin idem, page 579.
  • procreation idem, page 644.
  • production idem, page 645.
  • propagation idem, page 653.
  • raising idem, page 670.

Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝe.ne.sis/
• Hyphenation: γέ‧νε‧σις

γένεσις • (génesis) f (plural γενέσεις)

1. Katharevousa form of γένεση (génesi)

• as proper noun Γένεσις (Génesis, “Genesis”) (book of the Bible)

As in Ancient Greek without the dual number

• εν τη γενέσει (en ti genései) & in polytonic: ἐν τῇ γενέσει