The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγενεά“generation, descent”
- German · borrowed fromGen
- English todaygene
From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to come into being”). Coined by Danish botanist Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen in 1909, in a German-language publication, from the last syllable of pangene.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekγενεά all →
geneagenesis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.