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Etymology 1

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FromLatingenerō(beget, procreate, produce) +‎-ate(verb-forming suffix), fromgenus(a kind, race, family,gener- in compounds) +‎; seegenus. CompareItaliangenerare,Frenchgénérer (and its older (and now obsolete)Englishcognate fromMiddle French,gender(engender, breed, copulate)).

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generate (third-person singular simple presentgenerates,present participlegenerating,simple past and past participlegenerated)

  1. (transitive) To bring intobeing; give rise to.
    The discussiongenerated an uproar.
    • 1966,Owen Chadwick,The Victorian Church, volume 1,page126:
      The Ecclesiastical Commission wasgenerated by Sir Robert Peel and bore the marks of Peel’s personality; bureaucratic, capable and cold.
    • 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, inthe Guardian:
      In the last 20 minutes Athletic began togenerate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8841, page68:
      The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms togenerate[]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production thatgenerate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
  2. (transitive) Toproduce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
    Adding concentrated sulphuric acid to watergenerates heat.
  3. (transitive) Toprocreate,beget.
    Theygenerated many offspring.
  4. (transitive, mathematics) To form afigure from acurve orsolid.
    Rotating a circlegenerates a sphere.
  5. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
    • 1883,Thomas Hardy,The Three Strangers:
      Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin togenerate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.
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bring into being
produce as a result of a chemical or physical process
procreate, beget
mathematics: form a figure
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Etymology 2

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Learned borrowing fromLatingenerātus,perfectpassiveparticiple ofgenerō(beget, procreate, produce). SeeEtymology 1 and-ate(adjective-forming suffix) for more.

Adjective

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generate (notcomparable)

  1. (rare)Generated, notself-existent.
    Antonym:ingenerate
    • 1659–1660,Thomas Stanley, “[A Summary of Scepticism.] Chap[ter] XVII. Of Time.”, inThe History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, [], volume III, London: [] Humphrey Moseley, andThomas Dring, [],→OCLC, 4th part (Containing the Sceptick Sect), Book II (Of Physick),page87:
      But neither is one time generated in another; for if the preſent be generated in the future, the future muſt be present; and if in the paſt, the paſt. The ſame may be ſaid of other times; therefore one time is not generated in another. Now if time be neither generated in itſelf, nor one time in another, it is notgenerate at all. But that it is not ingenerate, we ſhewed also. Therefore ſeeing it is neithergenerate nor ingenerate, it is not at all; for every Beeing muſt either begenerate or ingenerate.
    • 1965, R. A. Norris,God & World in Early Chrisian Theology, volumeii. 67:
      It poses the thorny problem of the status of the Logos. Is hegenerate or ingenerate?.. Justin replies that he isgenerate—but in a special sense.

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Italian

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Verb

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generate

  1. inflection ofgenerare:
    1. second-personpluralpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personpluralimperative
    3. femininepluralpastparticiple

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Participle

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generāte

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofgenerātus

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Verb

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generate

  1. second-personsingular voseoimperative ofgenerar combined withte
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