Genesis Definition

jĕnĭ-sĭs
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noun
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The first book of the Bible, giving an account of the Creation.
Webster's New World
The way in which something comes to be; beginning; origin.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

(religion) The first sacred book in the Torah and the Hebrew Bible.

Wiktionary
A female given name of American usage since the 1980s.
Wiktionary
(video games) The video game console Mega Drive by Sega.
Wiktionary
suffix
Origin; production.
Abiogenesis.
American Heritage
affix
Origination, creation, formation, evolution (of something specified)
Psychogenesis.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Genesis

Noun

Singular:
genesis
Plural:
geneses

Origin of Genesis

  • From Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (genesis, “origin, source, beginning, nativity, generation, production, creation”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis (“birth, production”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Related to γίγνεσθαι (gignesthai) second aor. γενέσθαι (genesthai, “to be produced, become, be”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin from Greek birth, origin genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek γένεσις (genesis, “creation, beginning, origin”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin from Greek genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • see genesis

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

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