Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who produces or creates.
- n. Anthropology A natural father or mother.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who procreates; a sire; a progenitor.
- n. plural The genitals.
Wiktionary
- n. a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
- n. a generator; an originator – Sheldon
- n. obsolete, in the plural The genitals – Holland
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who begets; a generator; an originator.
- n. obsolete The genitals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a natural father or mother
Etymologies
- From Latin genitor, from genitus, past participle of the verb gignō + agent noun suffix -or. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English genitour, from Old French genitor, from Latin, from genitus, past participle of gignere, to beget; see genə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.”
“Thus, the female husband had rights to the domestic services of her "wife" and was the legitimate "father" of the wife's offspring, regardless of who the genitor might be.”
“Most of the pieces are of secular origin, but the Codex also has arrangements for organ of the Mass Cunctipotens genitor Deus.”
“Ut semel dicam, una gula est omnium morborum mater, etiamsi alius est genitor.”
“Tilney nuper de Shelleigh in Comitatu Suffolci�, pater et genitor”
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“Yolonda speculated about her genitor, whom she could only remember sometimes.”
““I can hardly remember my genitor,” she mused aloud, testing the word in her mouth.”
“* [6811] Quem genui? tuane hæc genitor per vulnera servor,”
“* [3187] Quem genui? tuane hæc genitor per vulnera servor,”
“* [551] Quem genui? tuane hæc genitor per vulnera servor,”
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