573: Genus/Genos Jul 3, 2016

Anyone who has read The Book of Genesis would realize that humans are a great deal about 2 things: classifying, and families/tribes. This is fairly clear, as well, from the way that we use and create words. To make a list of words that are related to the Latin, 'genus' or Greek 'genos' meaning ‘birth, family, nation race or stock’ would be difficult to 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 (deriving from the verb 'generare', from 'genus'). Older words, such as 'genesis' come from that root, as well as newer words such as 'genocide' which was compounded in the 1940's. Even words from other languages have been created on the foundation of 'genos', such as the German, 'gene' which was created in the early 20th century. As well, grammatical gender comes from the French 'genre' (also where we get 'genre' from the earlier or ‘type or class (of noun)'. This list is just a smattering of the total amount of words to come from that root.