Genesis
/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/ name, noun
name, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a coming into being wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 The first book in the Hebrew Bible.
- 2 A female given name from Ancient Greek of American usage since the 1980s.
Example
More examples"Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece."
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”).