γενεά, ᾶς,
Ionic dialect γενεή, ῆς, ἡ, Epic dialect dative γενεῆφι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.112 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: (γενέσθαι):
__I of the persons in a family,
__I.1 race, family, Πριάμου γ. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.306, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.222, 16.117; γενεήν τε τόκον τε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.141; ἴδμεν.. γενεήν, ἴδμεν δὲ τοκῆας 20.203, compare 214 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γενεῇ ὑπέρτερος higher by birth or blood, [[ 11.786 (but ] Refs]younger in [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus cited in Scholia ad l.)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ταύτης εἶναι γ. καὶ αἵματος of this race and blood, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.211; πατρόθεν ἐκ γενεῆς ὀνομάζειν 10.68 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γενεῇ by birthright, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.387 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Αἰτωλὸς γενεήν by descent, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.471; γενεὴν Διός 21.187 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γενεὴ ἔκ τινος descent from..,[[ [prev. work] 157; γενεὴν ἀπὸ Θρηίκης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.134 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of horses, breed, stock, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.265, 268: _plural_, χρήματα καὶ γενεάς] Refs 8th c.BC+] families, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Timoleon” 34 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; γενεὰν ποιεῖσθαι to have issue, [[ “GDI” 1798 (Delph.); πατριὰ καὶ γ., ={φρατρία καὶ γένος}, [prev. work]1152 (from Elis)] Refs]: hence, tribe, nation, Περσῶν γ., Τυρρηνῶν γ., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 912 (Lyric poetry), “Eleg.” 2:—rare in Prose, τίς ὢν γενεά; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.1.6; καὶ αὐτὸν καὶ τὰν γ. ἀπολέσθαι “SIG” 306.8 (Tegea, 4th c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]