Latin
gignō
‘to bring forth as a fruit of oneself: to bear, to beget, to engender, to give birth to’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin gignō.
9 English words in this record descend from Latin gignō, most familiar first.
- engine ← engyn ← ingenium
- engineer ← enginour ← enginour ← ingenium
- genius
- genital ← genitalis ← genitus
- ingenious ← ingénieux ← engenious ← ingeniōsus ← ingenium
- genitalia ← (membra) genitālia ← genitālis
- engenho ← engenno ← ingenium
- geniture ← genitura
- ingeny ← ingenium
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Etymograph / Latin gignō