The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπαρθένος“virgin”
- English todayparthenogenesis
From partheno- + -genesis, from Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin”) and γένεσις (génesis, “origin, creation, generation”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπαρθένος all →
parthemollinparthen-partheniacParthenicparthenophiliaParthenos
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