γενεά

• γενεή (geneḗ) – Ionic

Verbal noun from the root of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”).

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γενεᾱ́ • (geneā́) f (genitive γενεᾶς); first declension

1. birth
2. race, descent
3. generation
4. offspring

• Greek: γενεά (geneá)

• γενεά in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γενεά in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γενεά 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
• γενεά in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
• γενεά in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1074 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.
  • age idem, page 18.
  • descent idem, page 214.
  • generation idem, page 356.
  • lineage idem, page 493.
  • parentage idem, page 592.
  • stock idem, page 818.

• γενιά (geniá)

From Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá).

• IPA^(key): /ʝeneˈa/
• Hyphenation: γε‧νε‧ά

γενεά • (geneá) f (plural γενεές)

1. (formal) Alternative form of γενιά (geniá)

Used only with γενεά (but not with γενιά):

• Expressions

  χάσμα γενεών ― chásma geneón ― generation gap

  σύγκρουση γενεών ― sýgkrousi geneón ― generation clash

• Idiomatic set phrases:

  περνάω γενεές δεκατέσσερις ― pernáo geneés dekatésseris ― rake over the coals, reprimand, give a bollocking to

  τον πέρασε γενεές δεκατέσσεις

  ton pérase geneés dekatésseis

  (He/she gave him/her a bollocking. (literally: He/she passed him/her through 14 generations)

And see γενιά