ingenerate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin ingenerātus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ingenerate (comparative more ingenerate, superlative most ingenerate)

  1. (now rare) Innate, inborn.

Verb

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ingenerate (third-person singular simple present ingenerates, present participle ingenerating, simple past and past participle ingenerated)

  1. (transitive) To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.
    • a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
      ingenerate or encrease this disposition of lowlineſſe and abjection
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: [] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, [], published 1677, →OCLC:
      those noble habits that upon that account are ingenerated in the Soul, as Religion, Gratitude, Obedience, and Tranquillity of Mind

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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ingenerate

  1. inflection of ingenerare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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ingenerate f pl

  1. feminine plural of ingenerato

Latin

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Verb

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ingenerāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ingenerō