generic

English

/dʒɪˈnɛɹɪk/

adj
Definitions
  • Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.
  • Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
  • (of a product or drug) Not having a brand name.
  • (biology) Of or relating to a taxonomic genus.
  • Relating to gender.
  • (grammar) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene.
  • (computing) (Of program code) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
  • (geometry) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.

Etymology

Derived from Latin genus (kind, birth, origin, kjnn, born from, type, sort, descent, class, race, a race, begotten, genus) 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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