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Genesis

//ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The first book in the Hebrew Bible.
  2. 2
    A female given name from Ancient Greek of American usage since the 1980s.
Noun
  1. 1
    The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

    "Some point to the creation of Magna Carta as the genesis of English common law."

  2. 2
    a coming into being wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin genesis (“generation, nativity”), from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source, beginning”). Related to Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be produced, become, be”). Doublet of kind, gens, and jati.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “creation, beginning, origin”).

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