뜻

1. 기원, 탄생, 근원
2. 종류, 종, 일종, 유
3. 종족, 가족, 종
4. 무리, 그룹, 외부
5. 성별, 성

1. birth, origin
2. kind, type, class
3. species (of animal or plant), race (of people)
4. set, group (with common attributes)
5. (grammar) gender

예문

• ita, qui potuerint eorum praeceptorum sequi praescriptiones, erunt prudentiores singulorumque generum usum eligere poterunt in operibus. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER SECUNDUS, chapter 10 11:12)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 10장 11:12)

• Cum animadvertissem, imperator, plures de architectura praecepta voluminaque commentariorum non ordinata sed incepta uti particulas errabundas reliquisse, dignam et utilissimam rem putavi tantae disciplinae corpus ad perfectam ordinationem perducere et praescriptas in singulis voluminibus singulorum generum qualitates explicare. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER QUARTUS, chapter preface 1:1)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 머리말 1:1)

• tertio autem de aedium sacrarum dispositionibus et de earum generum varietate quasque et quot habeant species earumque quae sunt in singulis generibus distributiones. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER QUARTUS, chapter preface 1:4)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 머리말 1:4)

• e columnarum enim formationibus trium generum factae sunt nominationes, dorica, ionica, corinthia, e quibus prima et antiquitus dorica est nata. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER QUARTUS, chapter 1 2:5)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 1장 2:5)

• eorumque ordinationes institui, uti non sint quaerentibus separatim colligenda, sed e corpore uno et in singulis voluminibus generum haberent explicationes. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER QUINTUS, chapter preface 1:21)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 머리말 1:21)

유의어 사전

1. Stirps, genus, and gens, denote the race usually in an ascending line, as abstract and collective terms, for majores; whereas prosapia, progenies, propago, proles, suboles, in a descending line, as abstract and collective terms for posteri. 2. Prosapia is an antiquated solemn expression, and only to be used of ancient noble families, Cic. Univ. 11. Quintil. i. 6, 40; posteritas, the usual prosaic, progenies, a select, elevated expression, Cic. Rep. ii. 22; proles and suboles, poetical expressions, Cic. Or. iii. 38; proles denotes children, as fruits destined, as a younger race, to exist with their parents; suboles, as an after-growth, destined to supply the place of the generation that is dying off. 3. Gens (γενετή) is a political, genus (γένος), a natural race. Gens consists of families, whom the founder of states has united into a community or complex family; genus consists of species and individuals, that by their common properties belong to one and the same class of beings. (v. 307).

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein