Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: genea	2: genethlê	3: sungeneia	4: genesis	5: phulon
Latin	1: genus	2: natio	3: sanguis	4: propago	5: progenies
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In Perseus Texts:	eidos	diaphora	prosêkô	heis	engus
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genos, eos or ous, to, race, stock, kin, amphoteroisin homon g. êd' ia patrê Hom. Il. 13.354; haima te kai g. Hom. Od. 8.583; humeterou d' ouk esti geneos basileuteron au=Hom. Od. 15.533; genos paterôn aischunemen Hom. Il. 6.209; g. apolôle tokêôn Hom. Od. 4.62; hothi toi genos esti kai autêi au=Hom. Od. 6.35: freq. abs. in acc., ex Ithakês genos eimi from Ithaca I am by race, au=Hom. Od. 15.267, cf. Hom. Il. 5.544,au=Hom. Il. 5.896=lr, Soph. Phil. 239, etc.; in Att. freq. with the Art., podapos to genos ei; Aristoph. Peace 186, cf. Plat. Soph. 216a: so in dat., genei politai Dem. 23.24; genei huios, opp. an adopted son, IDEM=Dem. 44.2; hoi en genei, = sungeneis, Soph. OT 1430; hoi exô genous IDEM=Soph. Ant. 660; ouden en genei IDEM=Soph. OT 1016; genei prosêkein tini Xen. Anab. 1.6.1; genei apôterô einai Dem. 44.13: in gen., genous einai tinos to be of his race, anagnos kai genous tou Laïou Soph. OT 1383, cf. Xen. Hell. 4.2.9; enguterô, engutata genous, nearer, next of kin, Isaeus 8.33, Aesch. Supp. 388.

2. direct descent, opp. collateral relationship, genos gar, all' ouchi sungeneia Isaeus 8.33; hai kata genos basileiai hereditary monarchies, Aristot. Pol. 1285a16, au=Aristot. Pol. 1313a10.

II. offspring, even of a single descendant, son g. Hom. Il. 19.124, au=Hom. Il. 21.186; hê d' ar' eên theion g. oud' anthrôpôn au=Hom. Il. 6.180; hamon Oidipou g. Aesch. Seven 654; Dios g., of Bacchus, Soph. Ant. 1117 (lyr.); Tekmêssa, dusmoron g. IDEM=Soph. Aj. 784.

2. collectively, offspring, posterity, ekeinoi kai to g. to ap' ekeinôn Thuc. 1.126; exôlê poiein auton kai g. kai oikian Dem. 19.71.

b. clan, house, family, Hdt. 1.125, etc.; Phrux men geneêi, geneos de tou basilêïou IBID=au=Hdt. 1.35=lr; tous apo genous men of noble family, Plu.Rom.21; hiereus kata g. IG 5(1).497, al.; also hiereia apo genous, dia genous, IBID=au=IG =lr,au=IG =lr; esp. at Athens and elsewhere as a subdivision of the phratria, Arist.Ath. Fr.au=Arist. =lr, Plat. Alc. 1.120e, etc.; = Lat.gens, D.S.4.21, Plu.Num.1.

c. tribe, as a subdivision of ethnos , Hdt. 1.56,au=Hdt. 1.101=lr.

d. caste, IDEM=Hdt. 2.164.

e. of animals, breed, IDEM=Hdt. 4.29.


2. age, generation, Hom. Od. 3.245; g. chruseon, etc., Hes. WD 109: hence, age, time of life, genei husteros Hom. Il. 3.215, cf. Aristot. Rh. 1408a27.

2. in Logic, opp. eidos (species), Plat. Parm. 129c, al., Arist.Top.102a31, au=Arist. Top. 102b12, al.; ta g. eis eidê pleiô kai diapheronta diaireitai IDEM=Aristot. Met. 1059b36.

3. in the animal kingdom, ta megista g., = the modern ti=Arist. Classes, such as birds, fishes, IDEM=Arist.HA490b7, cf. au=Arist. HA 505b26; so in the vegetable kingdom, genê ta megista, = sitôdê, chedropa and anônuma, Thphr.HP8.1.1.


b. genus, to tôn karkinôn g., to tôn peristerôn g., etc., Arist.HA487b17, au=Arist. HA 488a4; tôn dendrôn kai tôn phutôn eidê pleiô tunchanei kath' hekaston genos Thphr.HP1.14.3; tou autou genous [pitus] kai peukê Dsc. 1.69, al.

c. genos ti a species of plant, Thphr.HP4.8.13; so later, genê, = crops, allois genesi tois pros puron dioikoumenois PTeb.66.43, al. (ii B. C.); hois ean hairômai genesi plên knêkou PAmh.2.91.15 (ii A. D.); produce, POxy.727.20 (ii A. D.); materials, IBID=au=POxy. 54.16 (iii A. D.); en genesin in kind, opp. en arguriôi, PFay.21.10 (ii A. D.).


4. ta g. the elements, Plat. Tim. 54b. (Cf. Skt. jánas, gen. jánasas; Lat. genus, -eris, v. gignomai .)