Gene

Morpheme

Gene

Type

bound base

Denotation

birth, origin, lineage, descent, kind, type, class, set, group, category

Etymology

Latin genuīnus, from genus

Evidence

bigenus, demigenus, genarian, genuine, genus, genuses, ichnogenus, ignigenous, intergenus, intragenus, multigenus, nothogenus, oogenus, plurigenus, pseudogenus

Notes

singular genus~plural genera
genus, gender, and genre are doublets

See Also

Gender, Genre, Gen(e) [Gene, Gen], Gene, Gene, Genu, Gener, Geni, Gent, Germ, Gn, Gonad, Gon(e) [Gone, Gon], N, Naiss

Homographs

Gen(e) [Gene, Gen], Gene, Gene, Gene