genus

Etymology
Borrowed from from the root gen- in. .

Noun

 * 1)   A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
 * All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
 * Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
 * There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
 * 1) A taxon at this rank.
 * 2)  A group with common attributes.
 * 3)   A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
 * 4)   Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
 * 5)   A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
 * 1)   Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
 * 2)   A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.

Usage notes

 * See,.
 * Do not confuse a genus of things with the of things.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

 * ,, (genus)
 * ,, (genus)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: род
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: род
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 屬
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: slægt,
 * Dutch:
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 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: géineas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: тұқымдас
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຈຳພວກ, ຈຳພວກ,, ຊາຕິ
 * Lithuanian: gentis
 * Macedonian: род
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: genus
 * Malayalam:, ജീനസ്
 * Maori: puninga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: slekt
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
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 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ро̑д
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: rod
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rod
 * Upper Sorbian: ród
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: jenasi
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: urihay
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: рід
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: \
 * Welsh:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: slægt,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: géineas
 * Italian:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: род
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: aicme
 * Macedonian: сој
 * Occitan:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 種数
 * Portuguese:


 * Interlingua:
 * Maltese:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  gender
 * 1)  gender
 * 1)  gender

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1)  a rank in a taxonomic classification, in between family and species.
 * 2)  a taxon at this rank
 * 1)  a taxon at this rank

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  genus
 * 1)  genus

Etymology 1
From, from , from the root ; compare also , and , from the same root. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) birth, origin, lineage, descent
 * 2) kind, type, class
 * 3) species, race
 * 4) set, group
 * 5)  gender
 * 6) * 6th century, Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (attributed): Commentarium de oratione et de octo partibus orationis. In: „Patrologiae cursus completus sive Bibliotheca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium ss. patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad innocentii III tempora floruerunt; . Series prima, in qua prodeunt patres, doctores scriptoresque ecclesiae latinae a tertulliano ad gregorium magnum. Accurante J.-P. Migne, cursuum completorum in singulos scientiae ecclesiaticae ramos editore. Patrologiae tomus LXX. Cassiodori tomus posterior. – Magni Aurelii Cassiodori senatoris, viri patricii, consularis, et vivariensis abbatis opera omnia in duos tomos distributa, ad fidem manuscriptiorum codicum emendata et aucta, notis, observationibus et indicibus locupletata, praecedente auctoris vita, quae nunc primum in lucem prodit cum dissertatione de ejus monarchatu. Opera et studio J. Garetii monarchi ordinis sancti Benedicti e congregatione sancti mauri. Nobis autem curantibus accesserunt complexiones in epistolas b. Pauli quas edidit et annotavit scipio Maffeius. Tomus posterior. – Parisiis, venit apud editorem, in via dicta d'amboise, près la barriere d'enfer, ou petit-montrouge. 1847“, p. 1225
 * "la"
 * 1) * 6th century, Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (attributed): Commentarium de oratione et de octo partibus orationis. In: „Patrologiae cursus completus sive Bibliotheca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium ss. patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad innocentii III tempora floruerunt; . Series prima, in qua prodeunt patres, doctores scriptoresque ecclesiae latinae a tertulliano ad gregorium magnum. Accurante J.-P. Migne, cursuum completorum in singulos scientiae ecclesiaticae ramos editore. Patrologiae tomus LXX. Cassiodori tomus posterior. – Magni Aurelii Cassiodori senatoris, viri patricii, consularis, et vivariensis abbatis opera omnia in duos tomos distributa, ad fidem manuscriptiorum codicum emendata et aucta, notis, observationibus et indicibus locupletata, praecedente auctoris vita, quae nunc primum in lucem prodit cum dissertatione de ejus monarchatu. Opera et studio J. Garetii monarchi ordinis sancti Benedicti e congregatione sancti mauri. Nobis autem curantibus accesserunt complexiones in epistolas b. Pauli quas edidit et annotavit scipio Maffeius. Tomus posterior. – Parisiis, venit apud editorem, in via dicta d'amboise, près la barriere d'enfer, ou petit-montrouge. 1847“, p. 1225
 * "la"

- Genera nominum sunt sex: masculinum, ut hic Cato; femininum, ut haec musa; neutrum, ut hoc monile; commune duorum generum, ut hic et haec sacerdos: trium generum, ut hic, et haec, et hoc felix; epicoenon, quod Latine promiscuum dicitur, ut passer, aquila.


 * 1) * 16th century, Andreas Semperius (a.k.a. Andreas Sampere, Andreu Sempere): Andreae Semperii Valentini Alcodiani, doctoris medici, prima grammaticae latinae institutio tribus libris explicata, Majorca/Mallorca, 1819, p.19
 * "la"

- Genera nominum, septem sunt. Masculinum, cui praeponitur hic: ut hic Dominus. Foemineum, cui praeponitur haec: ut haec musa. Neutrum, cui praeponuntur hoc: ut hoc templum. Commune, cui praeponuntur hic, & haec: ut hic, & haec Sacerdos. Omne, cui praeponuntur hic, haec, hoc, vel per tres varias voces inflectitur: ut hic, haec, hoc felix, bonus, bona, bonum. Dubium, quod modo masculinum, modo faemineum, apud Oratores etiam invenitur: ut hic, vel haec dies. Promiscuum, in quo sexus uterque per alterum apparet: ut hic passer, haec aquila, hic lepus.


 * 1)  subtype of word

Hyponyms

 * [genus] fēminīnum, [genus] masculīnum, [genus] neutrum, genus commūne, genus omne
 * [genus] āctīvum, [genus] passīvum, [genus] neutrum, [genus] commūne, [genus], [genus] medium

Descendants
Unsorted borrowings:



Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  gender
 * 2)  voice
 * 1)  voice

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  gender (division of nouns and pronouns)
 * 2) (social) gender, sex (social issues of being man or woman)

Usage notes

 * Biological gender is called . The Latin word genus is used for grammar and more recently for gender studies.