generatio
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
Latin > English
generatio generationis N F :: generation, action/process of procreating, begetting; generation of men/family
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
gĕnĕrātĭo: ōnis, f. genero,
I a begetting, generating, generation (post-Aug.): piscium, Plin. 9, 50, 74, § 157; 8, 47, 72, § 187: deorum = θεογονία, a poem of Hesiod, Lact. 1, 5, 8: Adam, Vulg. Gen. 5, 1: Christi, id. Matt. 1, 1.—
II Transf., a generation of men, Ambros. Off. Ministr. 1, 25, 121.—In plur., Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 142 al.; Vulg. Eph. 3, 5 et saep.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
gĕnĕrātĭō, ōnis, f. (genero), génération, reproduction : Plin. 9, 157 || une génération [d’hommes] : Ambr. Off. 1, 25, 121 ; Ep. 73, 22, etc.
Latin > German (Georges)
generātio, ōnis, f. (genero), I) die Zeugung, Zeugungsfähigkeit, der Menschen, Plin. 20, 142 u.a.: der Tiere, Plin. 8, 187 u.a.: multiplex od. iterata (= παλιγγενεσία), Mythogr. Lat. 3, 6, 12 u. 21: deorum = θεογονία, die Theogonie (des Hesiod), Lact. 1, 5, 8: generationes passionis, Cael. Aur. de morb. chron. 3, 8, 108. – II) meton., die Generation Menschen, Ambros. de off. ministr. 1, 25. § 121.
