Etymology

protogenos

P3R1O1T1O1G2E1N1O1S1

Today it means: Any of the first order of deities to come into existence, according to Greek cosmogony. Full definition →

Ancient Greek πρωτόγονος
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπρωτόγονος“first-born”
  2. English todayprotogenos

From Ancient Greek πρωτόγονος (prōtógonos, “first-born”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπρωτόγονος all →

protogine

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.