Where does “engender” come from?
Engender comes from Latin ingenerare, formed from in- and genus meaning "kind or race," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- meaning "to produce or beget."
engender (English): To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman)
Definitions
- To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman)
Ancestry of “engender”, step by step
engender traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English engendren
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | engendren | to beget |
| 2 | Old French | engendrer | to engender; to beget; to cause; to bring about;... |
| 3 | Latin | ingenero | I implant, engender |
| 4 | Latin | generō | to bring to life, to confer life upon: to beget, to breed, to father, to impregnate, to procreate, to sire |
| 5 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |