γέννα

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

Noun

γέννᾰ or γέννᾱ • (génna or génnā) f (genitive γέννης or γέννᾱς); first declension

(Poetic)
  1. Synonym of γένος (génos)
    1. descent, lineage
    2. origin
      • 2nd century CE, w:Secundus the Silent, Sententiae. 15.
        γῆ γέννα πάντων
        gê génna pántōn
        the earth origin of everyone/everything
    3. offspring, generation
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 853
        πέμπτη δ’ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ γέννα
        pémptē d’ ap’ autoû génna
        the fifth generation after him
    4. family (children), race
  2. (of the Moon) coming forth
  3. Medieval (Byzantine) Greek:
    1. γέννα • (génna) f (genitive γέννας); first declension
      1. childbirth (process of childbearing)
      2. family
      3. (of the Moon, expression) “γέννα τῆς σελήνης (génna tês selḗnēs)”: moonrise (literally: the birth of the Moon)
    2. τὰ Γέννα • (tà Génna) n pl (genitive Γέννων); second declension
(6th century CE)
      1. Christmas
        Synonym: τὰ Χριστούγεννα

Inflection

Descendants

From Medieval Greek:

Further reading

  • γέννᾰ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • γέννα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • γέννα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • γέννα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
  • γέννα in Kriaras, Emmanuel. (n.d.) Επιτομή του Λεξικού της Μεσαιωνικής Ελληνικής Δημώδους Γραμματείας [Concise Dictionary of Medieval Vulgar Greek Literature (1100‑1669) Vols. I‑XIV.] (in Greek), Online edition

Greek

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʝe.na/
  • Hyphenation: γέν‧να

Etymology 1

From Byzantine Greek γέννα (génna) from verb γεννῶ. The Ancient Greek noun γέννα had a different meaning: “ancestry, descendant”‎)[1].

Noun

γέννα • (génna) f (plural γέννες)

  1. birth (process of childbearing)
Usage notes
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Etymology 2

Inflectional form of the verb γεννάω (gennáo) / γεννώ (gennó, “to give birth”).

Verb

γέννα • (génna)

  1. 2nd person singular imperfective imperative of γεννάω (gennáo) (also: γένναγε)
  2. 2nd person singular perfective imperative of γεννάω (gennáo) (also: γέννησε)

References

  1. ↑ γέννα in Triantafyllides, Hidryma (1998) Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek]
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