Genesis
English
proper noun
Definitions
- (religion) The first sacred book in the Torah and the Hebrew Bible.
- of American usage since the 1980s.
- (video games) A video game console, the .
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek γένεσις (origin, creation, beginning, generation, production, nativity, source, formation, origination, coming into being).
Origin
Ancient Greek
γένεσις
Gloss
origin, creation, beginning, generation, production, nativity, source, formation, origination, coming into being
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -genesis English
- genetics English
- genesis Latin
- гене́тика Russian
- -génesis Spanish, Castilian
- γένεσις Ancient Greek
- γίγνομαι Ancient Greek
- *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵénh₁tis Proto-Indo-European
- genese Norwegian Bokmål
- genese Norwegian Nynorsk
- genesis Norwegian Nynorsk
- -gineas Irish
- axiogenesis Old Norse
- Γένεση Greek (modern)
- Γένεσις Greek (modern)
- γένεση Greek (modern)
- γένεσις Greek (modern)
- *génetis Proto-Hellenic