γέννα

γέννᾰ or γέννᾱ • (génna or génnā) f (genitive γέννης or γέννᾱς); first declension

(Poetic)

1. Ancient Greek
   1. Synonym of γένος (génos)
      1. descent, lineage
      2. origin
         • 2nd century CE, w:Secundus the Silent, Sententiae. 15.

           γῆ γέννα πάντων

           gê génna pántōn

           the earth origin of everyone/everything

      3. offspring, generation
         • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 853:

           πέμπτη δ’ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ γέννα

           pémptē d’ ap’ autoû génna

           the fifth generation after him

      4. family (children), race
   2. (of the Moon) coming forth
2. Medieval (Byzantine) Greek: γέννα • (génna) f (genitive γέννας); first declension

1. 1. childbirth (process of childbearing)
   2. family
   3. (of the Moon, expression) “γέννα τῆς σελήνης (génna tês selḗnēs)”: moonrise (literally: the birth of the Moon)
   4. also see τὰ Γέννα • (tà Génna) n pl (genitive Γέννων); second declension

(6th century CE):  Christmas

1. 1. Synonym: τὰ Χριστούγεννα (tà Khristoúgenna)

• γεννάω / γεννῶ
• γέννας (génnas, “uncle”, masculine noun)
• also see τοκετός (toketós)

From Medieval Greek:

• Greek: γέννα (génna)

• γέννᾰ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γέννα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γέννα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• γέννα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• γέννα in Kriaras, Emmanuel. (n.d.) Επιτομή του Λεξικού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Δημώδους Γραμματείας [Concise Dictionary of Medieval Vulgar Greek Literature (1100‑1669) Vols. I‑XIV.] (in Greek), Online edition

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝe.na/
• Hyphenation: γέν‧να

From Byzantine Greek γέννα (génna) from verb γεννῶ. The Ancient Greek noun γέννα had a different meaning: “ancestry, descendant”‎)[1].

γέννα • (génna) f (plural γέννες)

1. birth (process of childbearing)

• The very rare genitive plural “των γεννών”, is either archaic (“τῶν γεννῶν”), or regional demotic, or used for veterinary archives “αρχείο γεννών” ‎(archeío gennón, “archive of births/labours”‎) while the common “αρχείο γεννήσεων” ‎(archeío genníseon, “archive of births”‎) has to do with childbirths and registration.

• γέννηση f (génnisi)
• τοκετός m (toketós)

• γεννώ (gennó, “give birth or beget”)
• Χριστούγεννα (Christoúgenna, “Christmas”)

Inflectional form of the verb γεννάω (gennáo) / γεννώ (gennó, “to give birth”).

γέννα • (génna)

1. 2nd person singular imperfective imperative form of γεννάω (gennáo). (also: γένναγε)
2. 2nd person singular perfective imperative form of γεννάω (gennáo). (also: γέννησε)