Where does “generation” come from?
Generation comes from Middle French generacion, meaning the act of procreation or producing offspring.
generation (English): The fact of creating something, or bringing...
Definitions
- The fact of creating something, or bringing...
Ancestry of “generation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | generacioun | generation |
| 2 | Old French | generacion | procreation; begetting |
| 3 | Latin | generātiō | a generation |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “generation”
- generational
- intergenerational
- multigenerational
- cogeneration
- transgenerational
- intragenerational
- generationally
- intergenerationally
- microgeneration
- multigeneration
- photogeneration
- overgeneration
- transgenerationally
- intergeneration
- trigeneration
- autogeneration
- hydrogeneration
- unigenerational
- generationer
- trigenerational
- pregeneration
- congeneration
- intrageneration
- bigenerational