engender

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/|/ɛnˈdʒɛn.də/    美 /ɛnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/|/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). obsolete,transitive
    — O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.
  2. To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
    — Gender, they emphasize, is socially constructed by our surroundings. We are en-gendered by our families, our teachers, and by the images in our music, films, media and fashions.
  3. To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). transitive
    — Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].
  4. To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. transitive
    — ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.
  5. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. intransitive
    — Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.
  6. To copulate, to have sex. intransitive,obsolete
    — But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]

词形变化

engenders present,singular,third-person engendering participle,present engendered participle,past engendered past engendre alternative ingender alternative engenders present,singular,third-person engendering participle,present engendered participle,past engendered past

词汇关系

衍生词
engenderable engenderer engenderment misengender

词源

词源 1
From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English engender
From en- + gender.
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