geni N N

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gĕnĭus, i (voc. geni, Tib. 4, 5, 9 M. dub.), m. [root GEN, gigno; prop., the superior or divine nature which is innate in everything, the spiritual part, spirit; hence], the tutelar deity or genius of a person, place, etc. (cf.: lares, penates).

In gen.:

genium dicebant antiqui naturalem deum uniuscujusque loci vel rei aut hominis,

Serv. Verg. G. 1, 302; cf. Voss ad loc.; Verg. A. 5, 95; Juv. 6, 22; Liv. 21, 62, 9; Mart. 7, 12, 10:

eundem esse genium et larem, multi veteres memoriae prodiderunt, in queis etiam Granius Flaccus,

Censor. de Die Nat. 3, 2; Prud. adv. Symm. 2, 369; 444:

scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat astrum, Naturae deus humanae, mortalis in unum Quodque caput, vultu mutabilis, albus et ater,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 187:

genius tuus malus,

Flor. 4, 7, 8. —In urgent petitions and in oaths appeals were made to the Genius of the person addressed, or to that of some eminent person:

te per Genium... Obsecro et obtestor,

Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 94; cf. Sen. Ep. 12, 12; Tib. 4, 5, 8; Suet. Calig. 27; Dig. 12, 2, 13, § 6.—

On festal occasions the Genius was propitiated: cras Genium mero Curabis et porco bimestri,

Hor. C. 3, 17, 14; id. Ep. 2, 1, 144; id. A. P. 210; Pers. 2, 3; Ov. Am. 1, 8, 94 et saep.; cf. Tib. 1, 7, 49:

magne Geni, cape dona libens votisque faveto,

id. 4, 5, 9:

acceptus Geniis December (because the Saturnalian festivals occurred in it),

Ov. F. 3, 58:

genium loci... precatur,

Verg. A. 7, 136:

GENIO LOCI,

Inscr. Orell. 343 sq.; 1697; 1701:

COLONIAE,

ib. 367; 1693 sq.:

MVNICIPII,

ib. 689; 1690 sq.:

CVRIAE,

ib. 1120:

FORI VINARII,

ib. 4087:

THEATRI,

ib. 1713:

Lateranus deus est focorum et Genius,

Arn. 4, 6 et saep.:

Priapi,

Petr. 21:

Famae,

Mart. 7, 12, 10:

JOVIS,

Inscr. Orell. 1730; 2488:

DEORVM,

ib. 1730.—

In partic.

With respect to the enjoyment of life.

The spirit of social enjoyment, fondness for good living, taste, appetite, inclination:

isti qui cum geniis suis belligerant, parcipromi,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 81; cf.:

egomet me defraudavi Animumque meum geniumque meum,

id. Aul. 4, 9, 15; and:

suum defrudans genium,

sacrificing his inclinations, Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 10 Ruhnk.:

sapis multum ad genium,

Plaut. Pers. 1, 3, 28:

hic quidem meliorem Genium tuum non facies,

id. Stich. 4, 2, 42:

nunc et amico meo prosperabo et genio meo multa bona faciam,

id. Pers. 2, 3, 11:

indulge genio: carpamus dulcia,

id. ib. 5, 151.—Hence,

A term used by parasites for entertainer, patron:

ecquis est, qui mihi commonstret Phaedromum genium meum?

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 22; 5, 2, 29; id. Capt. 4, 2, 99; id. Men. 1, 2, 29. —

Of the intellect, wit, talents, genius (very rare):

nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit,

Juv. 6, 562:

victurus genium debet habere liber,

Mart. 6, 60, 10. —Hence, in a pun with the preced. signif., Mart. 7, 78, 7.

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E, e, indecl. n. or (sc. littera) fem., a vowel corresponding to both the e and the ê of the Greeks, Ter. Maur. p. 2386 P.; Aus. Idyll. de Litter. Monos. 3 and 4; Mart. Cap. 3, § 235. Its sound varied; short e being sounded sometimes like Engl. e in men (so in pater, inter, etc.), sometimes more nearly like short i, as in Engl. pin (so in famelia, mereto, Menerva, etc.); whence, in the literary language, it passed, in a large class of words, into ĭ (familia, merito, etc.), though retained in the popular speech, and oft. in inscriptions. Long e also varied in sound, often resembling the diphthong ae, with which it is constantly confounded in MSS. and inscrr. (cf. raeda and reda; saeculum and seculum; ceteri and caeteri, etc.), and often approaching the sound of ī (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 324 sqq.). The short e in Latin is the least emphatic of all the vowels; hence, it not only took the place of other vowels in changes of words where the sounds became weakened, and in the vulgar language where the vowel sounds were less sharply distinguished, but frequently took the place of a final syllable ending in a consonant, and was sometimes, especially at the end of words, rejected.

The transition of ă into ĕ (which took place especially before two consonants, whereas usually ă passed into ĭ in open syllables, v. art. A.) is seen in the compounds refello, commendo, ineptus, confercio, incestus, perpetior, etc. In some words the orthography is unsettled, as in the compounds of spargo, which are written sometimes aspergo, conspergo, dispergo, etc., and sometimes aspargo, conspargo, dispargo, etc.; as along with dispando the vulgar form dispenno also occurs. So in all the verbal reduplications, as cĕcidi, cĕcini, pĕperi, pĕpigi, tĕtigi; pĕperci, fĕfelli; dĕdi and stĕti (from cado, cano, pario, pango, tango, parco, fallo, DA and STA), whereas the vowels i, o, u remain unchanged in reduplication (bĭbi; mŏmordi; tŭtudi; for the anomalous forms in Gell. 7, 9, are certainly Graecized). As along with pĕpĭgi there also arose by syncope (in the Lat. lang. a predominating element in the formation of words) the perfect pēgi; so we may explain the perfect forms cēpi, fēci, jēci, frēgi, and ēgi, as syncopated from cĕcĭpi, fĕfĭci, jĕjĭci, frĕfĭgi, and ĕïgi (this last analogously with dēgo, from dēĭgo).

For i stands ĕ

in the neuter forms of the adjectives in is (acre, agreste, facile, etc.).—

In the nominative forms: aedes, apes, canes, etc. (for aedis, apis, canis, etc. v. h. vv.).—

In the dative forms: morte, jure dicundo, Dijove, Victore, etc. (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 192 sq.; and Quint. 1, 4, 17). —

In the nominatives in es, whose genitive has ĭtis.—

In the nominatives from stems ending in c, b, p, t, n, etc., as, pollex, caelebs, princeps, comes, flumen, from pollic-, caelib-, princip-, comit-, flumin-; and

In the old and partly vulgar manner of writing and pronouncing: CEPET, EXEMET, NAVEBOS (Colum. Rostr.), FVET, DEDET, TEMPESTATEBVS, TIBE (Epit. of the Scipios), COMPROMESISE (S. C. de Bacch.), MENERVA, MAGESTER, HERE, VEA, VELLA, etc. (Quint. 1, 4, 8, and 17; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46). In the earliest period (before Plautus) ĕ was found in many words in which ĭ afterwards took its place; as: semul, fuet, mereto, tempestatebus, etc.—

It is prob. too that the abl. ĕ of the third declension proceeded from ī (or id); cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 239 sqq.; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 241 sq.

It less freq. happens that o and u pass over into ĕ, as vello, ocellus, verto, vertex, vester, compared with vulsi, oculus, vorto, vortex, voster: generis from genus, societas from socius, etc.; and even for long u we have ĕ in dejĕro and pejĕro, from jūro.

The stem vowel o is weakened to ĕ in the vocative of nouns in us of the second declension; ĕ also represents o in the perf. and in pass. forms, such as scripsere, conabare, conabere, from scripserunt, conabaris, conaberis; in the future forms attinge, dice, facie, recipie, from attingam, dicam, faciam, recipiam (see under dico init.); in the forms mage, pote, from magis, potis, etc.; it is inserted for euphony in the nom. of many nouns and adjj whose stems end in r preceded by a mute, as ager, aper, liber, aeger, ruber, sacer, etc.

The vowel e is suppressed in the imperatives dic, duc, fac, fer, in the anteclass infinitive biber (from bibere); in the vocative of the second declension of nouns in ius, as Gai, geni, fili, canteri, columbari, mantuari, volturi, mi (cf. Freund in Jahn's Neue Jahrbüch, 1835, vol. 13, p. 148 sq.), in enclitic particles often, as: hic, haec, hoc, for hice, etc.; so, illaec, sic, nunc, nec, ac, etc.: viden, potin: quin, for quine, etc., and as an initial in the present forms of the verb esse (sum, sumus, sunt; sim, etc., for esum, esumus, esunt, esim, etc.). But the forms facul, simul, Bacchanal, etc., are not apocopated. Even a radical ĕ sometimes drops out when a prefix or suffix is taken; so, gigno, for gigeno: malignus, for maligenus: gnatus, for genatus.

The long e interchanges most freq. with the diphthongs ae and oe (q. v.); yet it sometimes also took the place of ā, as in anhēlo, from hālo, and in the rustic bēlo, for bālo; and likewise of ī, as LEBER, SPECA, AMECVS, for līber, spīca, amīcus (Quint. Inst. l. l.; Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2; Paul. ex Fest. p. 15, 6 Müll.); and in words borrowed from the Greek, as chorēa, Darēus, along with Academīa, Alexandrīa; see the letter I.

As an abbreviation, E (mostly in connection with other abbreviations) signifies egregius, equus, eques, erexit, evocatus, etc.; e. g. E. M. V. = egregiae memoriae vir; E. Q. R. = eques Romanus; EE. QQ. RR. = equites Romani; E. P. = equo publico; E. M. D. S. P. E. = e monitu de sua pecunia erexit, etc.

e.. praep., out of, from, v. ex.

E, e, indecl. n. or (sc. littera) fem., a vowel corresponding to both the e and the ê of the Greeks, Ter. Maur. p. 2386 P.; Aus. Idyll. de Litter. Monos. 3 and 4; Mart. Cap. 3, § 235. Its sound varied; short e being sounded sometimes like Engl. e in men (so in pater, inter, etc.), sometimes more nearly like short i, as in Engl. pin (so in famelia, mereto, Menerva, etc.); whence, in the literary language, it passed, in a large class of words, into ĭ (familia, merito, etc.), though retained in the popular speech, and oft. in inscriptions. Long e also varied in sound, often resembling the diphthong ae, with which it is constantly confounded in MSS. and inscrr. (cf. raeda and reda; saeculum and seculum; ceteri and caeteri, etc.), and often approaching the sound of ī (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 324 sqq.). The short e in Latin is the least emphatic of all the vowels; hence, it not only took the place of other vowels in changes of words where the sounds became weakened, and in the vulgar language where the vowel sounds were less sharply distinguished, but frequently took the place of a final syllable ending in a consonant, and was sometimes, especially at the end of words, rejected.

The transition of ă into ĕ (which took place especially before two consonants, whereas usually ă passed into ĭ in open syllables, v. art. A.) is seen in the compounds refello, commendo, ineptus, confercio, incestus, perpetior, etc. In some words the orthography is unsettled, as in the compounds of spargo, which are written sometimes aspergo, conspergo, dispergo, etc., and sometimes aspargo, conspargo, dispargo, etc.; as along with dispando the vulgar form dispenno also occurs. So in all the verbal reduplications, as cĕcidi, cĕcini, pĕperi, pĕpigi, tĕtigi; pĕperci, fĕfelli; dĕdi and stĕti (from cado, cano, pario, pango, tango, parco, fallo, DA and STA), whereas the vowels i, o, u remain unchanged in reduplication (bĭbi; mŏmordi; tŭtudi; for the anomalous forms in Gell. 7, 9, are certainly Graecized). As along with pĕpĭgi there also arose by syncope (in the Lat. lang. a predominating element in the formation of words) the perfect pēgi; so we may explain the perfect forms cēpi, fēci, jēci, frēgi, and ēgi, as syncopated from cĕcĭpi, fĕfĭci, jĕjĭci, frĕfĭgi, and ĕïgi (this last analogously with dēgo, from dēĭgo).

For i stands ĕ

in the neuter forms of the adjectives in is (acre, agreste, facile, etc.).—

In the nominative forms: aedes, apes, canes, etc. (for aedis, apis, canis, etc. v. h. vv.).—

In the dative forms: morte, jure dicundo, Dijove, Victore, etc. (cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 192 sq.; and Quint. 1, 4, 17). —

In the nominatives in es, whose genitive has ĭtis.—

In the nominatives from stems ending in c, b, p, t, n, etc., as, pollex, caelebs, princeps, comes, flumen, from pollic-, caelib-, princip-, comit-, flumin-; and

In the old and partly vulgar manner of writing and pronouncing: CEPET, EXEMET, NAVEBOS (Colum. Rostr.), FVET, DEDET, TEMPESTATEBVS, TIBE (Epit. of the Scipios), COMPROMESISE (S. C. de Bacch.), MENERVA, MAGESTER, HERE, VEA, VELLA, etc. (Quint. 1, 4, 8, and 17; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 46). In the earliest period (before Plautus) ĕ was found in many words in which ĭ afterwards took its place; as: semul, fuet, mereto, tempestatebus, etc.—

It is prob. too that the abl. ĕ of the third declension proceeded from ī (or id); cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 239 sqq.; Corss. Ausspr. 2, 241 sq.

It less freq. happens that o and u pass over into ĕ, as vello, ocellus, verto, vertex, vester, compared with vulsi, oculus, vorto, vortex, voster: generis from genus, societas from socius, etc.; and even for long u we have ĕ in dejĕro and pejĕro, from jūro.

The stem vowel o is weakened to ĕ in the vocative of nouns in us of the second declension; ĕ also represents o in the perf. and in pass. forms, such as scripsere, conabare, conabere, from scripserunt, conabaris, conaberis; in the future forms attinge, dice, facie, recipie, from attingam, dicam, faciam, recipiam (see under dico init.); in the forms mage, pote, from magis, potis, etc.; it is inserted for euphony in the nom. of many nouns and adjj whose stems end in r preceded by a mute, as ager, aper, liber, aeger, ruber, sacer, etc.

The vowel e is suppressed in the imperatives dic, duc, fac, fer, in the anteclass infinitive biber (from bibere); in the vocative of the second declension of nouns in ius, as Gai, geni, fili, canteri, columbari, mantuari, volturi, mi (cf. Freund in Jahn's Neue Jahrbüch, 1835, vol. 13, p. 148 sq.), in enclitic particles often, as: hic, haec, hoc, for hice, etc.; so, illaec, sic, nunc, nec, ac, etc.: viden, potin: quin, for quine, etc., and as an initial in the present forms of the verb esse (sum, sumus, sunt; sim, etc., for esum, esumus, esunt, esim, etc.). But the forms facul, simul, Bacchanal, etc., are not apocopated. Even a radical ĕ sometimes drops out when a prefix or suffix is taken; so, gigno, for gigeno: malignus, for maligenus: gnatus, for genatus.

The long e interchanges most freq. with the diphthongs ae and oe (q. v.); yet it sometimes also took the place of ā, as in anhēlo, from hālo, and in the rustic bēlo, for bālo; and likewise of ī, as LEBER, SPECA, AMECVS, for līber, spīca, amīcus (Quint. Inst. l. l.; Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2; Paul. ex Fest. p. 15, 6 Müll.); and in words borrowed from the Greek, as chorēa, Darēus, along with Academīa, Alexandrīa; see the letter I.

As an abbreviation, E (mostly in connection with other abbreviations) signifies egregius, equus, eques, erexit, evocatus, etc.; e. g. E. M. V. = egregiae memoriae vir; E. Q. R. = eques Romanus; EE. QQ. RR. = equites Romani; E. P. = equo publico; E. M. D. S. P. E. = e monitu de sua pecunia erexit, etc.

e.. praep., out of, from, v. ex.

gigno, gĕnŭi, gĕnĭtum, 3 (archaic primary form of the pres. gĕno, ĕre:

genit,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 19: genunt, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 898 P.:

genat,

Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 4: genitur, Auct. ap. Cic. Inv. 2, 42, 122; Cic. de Or. 2, 32, 141:

genuntur,

Varr. R. R. 2, 6, 3:

genamur,

Censor. 3, 1; inf. pass. geni, Lucr. 3, 797; gen. gerund. genendi, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 1:

genendo,

Censor. 3, 1; Arn. 4, 21; inf. pres. pass. gignier, Lucr. 3, 623; 6, 246; 807), v. a. [root gen-; Sanscr. ǵan-, ǵanami, beget; gātis, birth; Gr. gen- in gignomai, genos, gunê; Lat. genus, genius, gener, gens; also nascor (gn-; cf. gnatus), natura; cf. gamos, gambros (v. Curt. Gr. Etym. 536); gigno for gigeno, redupl. like gignomai], to beget, bear, bring forth, produce; in pass., to be born, to spring, arise, proceed; of animate and inanimate subjects and objects (syn.: creo, genero, pario).

Lit.: Saturno, quem Coelus genuit, Enn. ap. Non. 197, 9 (Ann. v. 27 Vahl.):

sextus (Hercules) hic ex Alcumena, quem Juppiter genuit,

Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42:

nec Hecubam causam interitus fuisse Trojanis, quod Alexandrum genuerit, nec Tyndareum Agamemnoni, quod Clytaemnestram,

id. Fat. 15, 34:

quaecumque animal pariunt, in capita gignunt,

bring forth their young with the head foremost, Plin. 10, 64, 84, § 183. So of the human mother (mostly post-Aug.):

idcirco, inquit Lacaena, genueram (filium),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 42, 102:

e septem liberis, quos ipsa genuisset, unum superesse,

Curt. 10, 5, 23:

rectius Lolliam induci, quando nullos liberos genuisset,

Tac. A. 12, 2 init.; Val. Max. 7, 7, 4; so,

ex aliquo,

Curt. 8, 3, 3; Tac. A. 12, 3:

pisces ova cum genuerunt, relinquunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 129:

ova,

Plin. 11, 37, 80, § 204:

omnia quae terra gignat (shortly before, pariat),

Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. Fin. 5, 11, 33: o Romule, Romule die, Qualem te patriae custodem di genuerunt! Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64 (Ann. v. 116 Vahl.); cf.:

ut idem deus urbem hanc gentibus, vos huic urbi genuisse videatur,

Cic. Phil. 14, 12, 32:

ita ut plurimum (aurum) Asturia gignat,

Plin. 33. [p. 815] 4, 21, §

78: India eos (beryllos) gignit,

id. 37, 5, 20, § 76:

ad majora quaedam natura nos genuit et conformavit,

Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 23:

deus animum ex sua mente et divinitate genuit,

id. Univ. 8.— Pass., usu. with abl., of either or both parents:

Meri bellatores gignuntur,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 85:

nuper erat genitus,

Ov. M. 10, 522:

qui antecedente anno genitum eum scribant,

Suet. Tib. 5:

septimo mense geniti,

Plin. 11, 37, 59, § 158:

pellice genitus,

Liv. 40, 9, 2; Suet. Aug. 17:

Jove genitus,

Curt. 8, 10, 1; 9, 8, 22:

juvenes eadem matre geniti,

id. 6, 14, 4; Liv. 1, 3, 3; Suet. Aug. 17; id. Tib. 7; id. Ner. 5 fin.:

genitum fratre adoptaverat,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 2.—Also with de, ab, ex:

De quo Remulusque feroxque Acrota sunt geniti,

Ov. M. 14, 617:

genitus de sanguine,

id. ib. 1, 748; id. H. 16, 117:

de Jove,

Gell. 13, 1, 3 (cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 19, 34):

filium ab eo genitum nominare,

Just. 12, 7, 10;

but: a se (= ex se) genitum esse Vitellium,

Tac. H. 3, 64:

puer ex ea genitus,

Curt. 8, 10, 36:

(vacca) e terra genita,

Ov. M. 1, 615:

dis genite et geniture deos,

Verg. A. 9, 642:

dis genitus,

Quint. 1, 10, 9:

adolescentis in omnium virtutum exempla geniti,

Vell. 2, 116, 2:

quae in terris gignantur, ad usum hominum omnia creari,

Cic. Off. 1, 7, 22:

nec enim id esset principium, quod gigneretur aliunde,

id. Rep. 6, 25:

ubi tus gignitur,

Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 89:

Corycium nemus, ubi crocum gignitur,

Curt. 3, 4 fin. — Poet. with inf.:

omne potens animal leti genitumque nocere,

Luc. 6, 485.— Absol.:

ut in gignendo, in educando perfacile appareat,

Cic. Fin. 2, 33, 109:

hae (mulieres), quae gignunt, imbecillos edunt,

Cels. 2, 1 med.

Trop., to produce, occasion, cause:

multa nobis blandimenta natura ipsa genuit,

Cic. Cael. 17, 41:

haec ipsa virtus amicitiam et gignit et continet,

id. Lael. 6, 20:

ludus genuit trepidum certamen et iram, Ira truces inimicitias et funebre bellum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 48:

qui genuit in hac urbe dicendi copiam,

Cic. Brut. 73, 255:

praeceptiones,

Auct. Her. 4, 3, 5:

probationes,

Quint. 5, 1, 1:

mel gignit insaniam,

Plin. 21, 13, 45, § 177; cf.:

baccharis odor somnum gignit,

id. 21, 19, 77, § 132:

alium sitim gignit,

id. 20, 6, 23, § 57.—In pass., to be born, to spring, arise, proceed:

cum ipse (Cato) sui generis initium ac nominis ab se gigni et propagari vellet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 180:

ex hac maxima libertate tyrannis gignitur et illa injustissima et durissima servitus,

id. Rep. 1, 44:

et aegritudines et metus et reliquae perturbationes omnes gignuntur ex ea (intemperantia),

id. Tusc. 4, 9, 22: Plato eas (ideas) gigni negat et ait semper esse, id. Or. 3, 10:

ipsi autem intelligamus natura gigni sensum diligendi et benevolentiae caritatem,

id. Lael. 9, 32:

odia etiam gigni sempiterna (opp. exstingui familiaritates),

id. ib. 10, 35:

in animorum permotione gignenda,

id. de Or. 3, 30, 118:

de gignenda et comparanda sapientia,

Gell. 13, 8, 1.—Hence, gignentĭa, ĭum, n. (fruit-bearing), organic bodies, things that grow, as plants, trees, etc.:

loca nuda gignentium,

Sall. J. 79, 6:

ilex aucta in altitudinem, quo cuncta gignentium natura fert,

id. ib. 93, 4:

animam animantium omnium non corpoream esse... omniumque gignentium esse seniorem,

App. Dogm. Plat. p. 193; opp. animalia, Lact. de Ira Dei, 1, 13.