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Genuine

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means authentic and real, not fake or counterfeit
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Stage 1 of 2
genuinus
Latin · ancient
"natural, native, innate"
natural, native, related to genu (knee), from an ancient custom of a father acknowledging a child on his knee
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Stage 2 of 2
genuine
English · 1590s
"authentic and real, not fake or counterfeit"
settled as the English word for authentic and real
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