palingenesis

The story

1. Latin · derived fromgenesēs
2. Swedish · derived frompalingenes
3. German · derived fromPalingenesis
4. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵenh₁-“to beget; to give birth; to produce”
5. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*kʷel-“to turn (end-over-end); to revolve around; to dwell, sojourn”
6. Ancient Greek · derived fromπᾰ́λῐν“again, anew, once more”
7. Koine Greek · derived fromπαλιγγενεσία“rebirth”
8. Late Latin · learned borrowing frompalingenesia“rebirth; regeneration”
9. English todaypalingenesis

Probably a variant of palingenesia + -genesis (suffix meaning ‘origin; production’). Palingenesia is a learned borrowing from Late Latin palingenesia (“rebirth; regeneration”), from Koine Greek παλιγγενεσία (palingenesía, “rebirth”), from Ancient Greek πᾰ́λῐν (pắlĭn, “again, anew, once more”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn (end-over-end); to revolve around; to dwell, sojourn”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “creation; manner of birth; origin, source”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). By surface analysis, palin- + genesis. Sense 2 (“apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species”) is from German Palingenesis; while sense 3 (“regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks”) is from Swedish palingenes. Both are derived from the Greek word: see above. The plural form is probably from palingenesis + Latin genesēs (a plural form of genesis).

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