degenerate

English

/dɪˈdʒɛnəɹət/, /dɪˈdʒɛnəɹeɪt/

adj
Definitions
  • (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
  • (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
  • (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
  • (mathematics) Relating to degeneracy
  • (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.

Etymology

Prefix from Latin genus (kind, birth, origin, kjnn, born from, type, sort, descent, class, race, a race, begotten, genus) prefix from English generate root from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ǵenh₁-

Gloss

produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear

Concept
Semantic Field

Modern world

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

産

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