genitor

American  

[jen-i-ter] / ˈdʒɛn ɪ tər /

noun

1. a parent, especially a father.

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genitor British  

/ ˈdʒɛnɪtə, -tɔː /

noun

1. the biological father as distinguished from the pater or legal father

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Etymology

Origin of genitor

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin, equivalent to geni- (variant stem of gignere to beget) + -tor -tor; cognate with Greek genétōr, Sanskrit janitar-

Example Sentences

It is sad that a genitor after Roosevelt's own heart should be entirely forgotten.

From Time Magazine Archive

This, however, in strict grammatical language, is an approach to gender rather than gender itself; the difference from true grammatical gender being as follows:— Let the Latin words genitor and genitrix be declined:— Sing.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Quos natura pares studiis, virtutibus, arte Edidit, illustres genitor natusque, sepulti Hác sub rupe Duces.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

And Evander on Pellas:— Contra ego vivendo vici mea fata superstes Restarem ut genitor.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry

O pater, o genitor, o sanguen dis oriundum, tu produxisti nos intra luminis oras.'

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.