Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who produces or creates.
- noun Anthropology A natural father or mother.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who procreates; a sire; a progenitor.
- noun plural The genitals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who begets; a generator; an originator.
- noun obsolete The genitals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring.
- noun a
generator ; anoriginator –Sheldon - noun obsolete, in the plural The genitals –
Holland
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a natural father or mother
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.
The Feast of St. Joseph Mike L 2007
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Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.
Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007
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Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.
The (belated) Feast of St. Joseph Mike L 2006
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Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense.
Archive 2006-03-01 Mike L 2006
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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.
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Most of the pieces are of secular origin, but the Codex also has arrangements for organ of the Mass Cunctipotens genitor Deus.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Ut semel dicam, una gula est omnium morborum mater, etiamsi alius est genitor.
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Tilney nuper de Shelleigh in Comitatu Suffolci�, pater et genitor
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Yolonda speculated about her genitor, whom she could only remember sometimes.
Yolonda's Genius Carol Fenner 2001
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“I can hardly remember my genitor,” she mused aloud, testing the word in her mouth.
Yolonda's Genius Carol Fenner 2001
Gammerstang commented on the word genitor
(noun) - (1) One who procreates; a sire; a father.
--Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c.1850
(2) A testicle; the testicles; in later use for genitals. Adapted from Old French genitoir. In adjective use as members genitors late 1400s.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901
January 16, 2018