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genis

genis is a Latin form of genus, meaning “kind, sort; race, birth”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of genius, “guardian spirit, genius; inclination”.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 6.686: effusaeque genis lacrimae, et vox excidit ore:

All forms of genus (declension table)

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