γεννάω
gennao
beget
Appears 255 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
γεννάω, fut. Med. γεννήσομαι in pass. sense, 19.2 (but -ηθήσομαι 4.9): (γέννα):—Α. causal of γίγνομαι (cf. γείνομαι), mostly of the father, beget, ὁ γεννήσας πατήρ El. 1412; οἱ γεννήσαντές σε your parents, Mem. 2.1.27; τὸ γεννώμενον ἔκ τινος 1.108, etc.; ὅθεν γεγενναμένοι sprung, P. 5.74; of the mother, bring forth, bear, Supp. 48, GA 716a22, Lac. 1.3, etc.:—Med., produce from oneself, create, Ti. 34b, Mx. 238a. 2. produce, grow, get, κἂν σῶμα γεννήσῃ μέγα Aj. 1077. 3. metaph., engender, produce, λήθη τῶν ἰδίων κακῶν θρασύτητα γεννᾷ 196; παντοίαν ἀρετήν Smp. 209e; διανοήματά τε καὶ δόξας R. 496a, etc.; γεννῶσι τὸν οὐρανὸν [οἱ φιλόσοφοι] call it into existence, Cael. 283b31; ὁ ἐξ ἀσωμάτου γεννῶν λόγος ib.305a16, cf. 6.6.9; of numbers, produce a total, 1.347.
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