Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

geniture

/ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gen-i-ture
IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃə/

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Birth; begetting.

Example Sentences

"on Lady-Day, which was on the 25th of the same month in which I date my geniture,—my father set out upon his journey to London with my eldest brother Bobby, to fix him at Westminster school"
"As Fagan points out, this horoscope may well have been computed from the planetary tables mentioned before. It is also possible that the astrologer who computed this geniture used Theon's reduction rule."

Etymology

From Old French géniture (the same word in modern French), or its source Latin genitura, from the base of gignere (“to beget”).

Origin

Source language: Old French

Word Breakdown

Root: géniture, genitura

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃə/

Inflected Forms

genitures (plural)

Derived Forms

postgeniture

Questions

How do you pronounce geniture?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt͡ʃə/.
What does geniture mean?: Birth; begetting.
Where does geniture come from?: It is traced to Old French.

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