γένος
Etym. γίγνομαι
I. "race, stock, family", Hom., etc.; absol. in acc., ἐξ Ἰθάκης γένος εἰμί from Ithaca I am "by race", Od.; in attic with the Art., ποδαπὸς τὸ γένος εἶ Ar.; so in dat., γένει πολίτης Dem.; οἱ ἐν γένει ῀ συγγενεῖς, Soph.; opp. to οἱ ἔξω γένους, id=Soph.; γένους εἶναί τινος to be of his "race", id=Soph.
II. "offspring", even "a single descendant, a child", Lat. genus, σὸν γένος Il.; θεῖον γένος, id=Il.; so in Trag.
2. collectively, "offspring, posterity", Thuc., Dem.
III. "a race", in regard to number, γ. ἀνδρῶν mankind, Il.; ἡμιόνων, βοῶν γ. Hom., etc.:— "a clan or house", Lat. gens, Hdt.; at Athens as a subdivision of the φρατρία, Plat.: — "a tribe", as a subdivision of ἔθνος, Hdt.:— "a caste", id=Hdt., Plat.: of animals, "a breed", Hdt.
2. "a race" in regard to time, "an age, generation", Od.; γ. χρύσειον, Hes.:—hence "age, time of life", γένει ὕστερος Il.
IV. "sex", Plat.: "gender", in grammar, Arist.
V. "a class, sort, kind", Xen.
2. in Logic, "genus", opp. to εἶδος (species), Plat.