Masculine
germe
- (masculine) germ
- (literary, masculine) seed, sprout
- (figuratively, masculine) seed, beginning, origin
- (archaic, figuratively, masculine) son, offspring
- (archaic, figuratively, masculine, rare) lineage, progeny
Frequency
Hyphenated as
gèr‧me
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈd͡ʒɛr.me/
Etymology
From Latin germen (“seed; origin”), from Proto-Italic *genamen, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ (“offspring, seed”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth, to beget”). Cognate with Irish giniúint (“procreation, birth”).
Keim
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