Words that come from Latin “genere”

228 words across 37 languages descend from Latin genere — including engine, genuine, engineering, engineer, ingenious, genuinely, genital, progenitor.

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English (106)

Latin (26)

Italian (20)

Spanish (9)

Portuguese (8)

French (7)

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