genus

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Latin word genus comes from Proto-Indo-European - -os, and later Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os (Race, lineage.)

- -os (Proto-Indo-European)

*ǵénh₁os (Proto-Indo-European)

Race, lineage.

*genos (Proto-Italic)

Lineage, origin.

genus (Latin)

(grammar) gender. Birth, origin. Kind, type, class. Set, group (with common attributes). Species (of animal or plant), race (of people).

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