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γενέσεις (geneseis)

γενέσεις is an Ancient Greek form of γένεσις, meaning “birth, origin”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.4: … παῖδα εἶναι Ἑρμοῦ καὶ Μούσης Οὐρανίας· ποιῆσαι δὲ κοσμογονίαν, ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης πορείαν, καὶ ζῴων καὶ καρπῶν γενέσεις. τούτῳ ἀρχὴ τῶν ποιημάτων ἥδε· ἦν ποτέ τοι χρόνος οὗτος, ἐν ᾧ ἅμα πάντʼ ἐπεφύκει. ὅθεν λαβὼν Ἀναξαγόρας πάντα …

All forms of γένεσις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.