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Definition of Genitor
1. Noun. A natural father or mother.
Definition of Genitor
1. n. One who begets; a generator; an originator.
Definition of Genitor
1. Noun. a biological parent (either male or female), or the direct cause of an offspring. ¹
2. Noun. a generator; an originator - ''Sheldon'' ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete in the plural) The genitals - ''Holland'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Genitor
1. a male parent [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genitor
Literary usage of Genitor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... da, genitor OVID. Illustrious parent! since you don't despise A parent's name,
some certain token give, Nor longer under false reproaches grieve. ..."
2. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"In the Latin words genitrix = a mother, and genitor = a father, the difference
... Contrast, however, with the words genitor and genitrix the words domina a ..."
3. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"the words genitor and genitrix being in a true etymological relation, ie either
derived from each other, or from some common source. With this we have, ..."
4. Origin of Language and Myths by Morgan Peter Kavanagh (1871)
"These names are such household words as father, mother, genitor, author, and
actor; after which—but in the next chapter—I intend to show the primary sense ..."
5. Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers.: To which is Added Porsoniana by Samuel Rogers, Alexander Dyce, William Maltby (1856)
"Virgil's words are : " Miseri te si qua parentis Tangere cura potest, oro,—fuit
et tihi talis * Anchises genitor,—Dauni miserere ..."
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