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Generate

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to produce or bring something into existence
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Stage 1 of 3
genus
Latin · ancient
"birth, kind, race"
birth, kind, race
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Stage 2 of 3
generare
Latin · ancient
"to beget, to produce"
to beget, to produce, from genus
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Stage 3 of 3
generate
English · 1500s
"to produce or create something"
settled as the English word for producing or creating something
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