Where does “générique” come from?

générique (Middle French) comes from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵénh₁os, from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

Ancestry of “générique”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	genus	birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
2	Proto-Italic	genos	lineage, origin
3	Proto-Indo-European	ǵénh₁os	race, lineage
4	Proto-Indo-European	ǵenh₁-	to produce, to beget, to give birth

Words derived from “générique”

generic
generically
nongeneric
genericity
intergeneric
subgeneric
genericness
genericism
multigeneric
genericide
intrageneric
biogeneric
monogeneric
infrageneric
suprageneric
bigeneric
polygeneric
trigeneric
genericization
pseudogeneric
cogeneric
genericize
supergeneric
heterogeneric

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- →

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