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genitaladj.n. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French genital; Latin genitālis. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman genitaile, Middle French genitaille, genital (French génital ) of or relating to procreation (13th cent. or earlier in Old French, apparently earliest in parties genitales , plural), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin genitālis of or concerned with creation, concerned with procreation or reproduction, capable of reproduction, of or connected with one's birth or birthday, hereditary, inborn, native < genit- , past participial stem of gignere to beget ( < the same Indo-European base as kin n.1) + -ālis -al suffix1. Compare Catalan genital (16th cent.), Spanish genital (late 14th cent.), Portuguese genital (c1543), Italian genitale (early 14th cent.). With the use as noun compare genitory n.In sense A. 2 after classical Latin diī genitālēs gods presiding over generation or birth. With use as noun in singular (compare sense B. 2) compare classical Latin genitāle , Anglo-Norman genitaile sexual organ (14th cent. or earlier), Middle French, French †genital penis (1555). With use as noun in plural (compare sense B. 1) compare classical Latin genitālia , Old French, Middle French genitailles (c1190), Spanish genitales (c1250), Italian genitali (beginning of the 14th cent. as genitay ), plural nouns. With the β. forms perhaps compare the α. forms at genitory n. A. adj.the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relating to a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1961) Num. xxv. 8 He [sc. Phynees] stykede þruȝ boþe to geders..in þe genytal placys [L. locis genitalibus]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xlviii. 262 In þe membres genytal God haþ sett [MS send] suche an appetite inseparable þat [etc.]. 1585 J. B. tr. P. Viret sig. Dvjv Some [fishes] which follow the females, and sprinkle the egges, with the genitall seed. 1599 H. Buttes sig. M3v The Wine wherein a Mullet is stifled drunke, depriveth men of all genital vertue. 1607 E. Topsell 21 The seed genitall of an Asse is more frigide then a horses. 1660 R. Sharrock 46 Into so many offsets shall the genitall vertue dispose itself. 1671 M. Lister Let. 10 Jan. in H. Oldenburg (1970) VII. 351 Whether all ye thread-yielding kinds [of spider], are not furnished wth a double penis or genital member? 1748 17 The Testicles being the secretory Organs of the genital Juice. 1774 O. Goldsmith IV. 310 The genital part of the male [camel] resembles that of the bull. 1832 R. Owen in (Royal Soc.) 122 519 Professor Geoffroy St. Hilaire..constituted a new order for these animals under the term ‘Monotrêmes’, being induced to believe, from an imperfect dissection, that the genital products of both sexes, as well as the urine and excrement, were voided by a common outlet. 1870 4 161 There is in all the higher vertebrata a stage where the genital gland is invested with germinal epithelium (Keim-epithel), in which the first indications of ova are visible. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing iv. 45 The genital openings of the male occupy a similar position in the fourteenth segment. 1921 W. L. Williams 23 At its anterior extremity the genital tract opens, through the pavilion of the oviduct, into the peritoneal cavity. 1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. (1978) vi. 62/1 The external genital organs swell and the clitoris becomes erect with its tip..exposed between the folds of the labia. 2007 June 135/2 These are the costly blowfish with neurotoxic poison in their genital areas, a sometimes lethal delicacy. 1652 J. Gaule 149 So many Geniall or Genitall Gods and Goddesses. 1876 G. D. Mathews 258/2 Diis Genitalibus. To the genital gods. 1918 H. W. Frink 299 Thus, as he [sc. Freud] says, such characteristics, corresponding to a sadistic-anal-erotic organization of the impulses may not only be a precursor to the genital phase of the sexual life but likewise its aftermath. 1953 5 340 I was dealing with..psychoanalytic characterologies which are based on sexual orientation—Freud's oral, anal and genital types. 1995 K. D. Browne & C. R. Hollin in C. Hollin ii. v. 86 It was Freud's notion that..the child's basic personality..becomes essentially fixed by the age of 6 years. A period of ‘latency’ follows until the child reaches adolescence and enters the final genital stage of pleasure and satisfaction through the opposite sex. 2010 (Nexis) 13 Apr. The 1951 election came in what Freudian analysts would call my latency stage (that's between the phallic and genital stages, by the way). B. n.the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun] the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) v. l. 855 Jupiter..his fader bond And kutte of with his oghne hond Hise genitals. c1440 (?a1400) l. 1123 Ewyn into immette the gyaunt he hyttez Iust to þe genitates [read genitales] and jaggede þam in sondre. a1500 (?a1425) tr. (Lamb.) 77 He þat leuys þys medicyn may drede werkynge of his genitalz. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover 175/1 Applye it verye warme to your genitalles. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine xiv. xvii. 520 Some philosophers called Gymnosophists..couer their genitalls [L. genitalibus], whereas all the rest of their bodies, are bare. 1682 T. Gibson 23 The parts ministring to Procreation, are the Genitals both in Men and Women. 1769 W. Buchan ii. 400 If the genitals be immersed in cold water, it will generally stop a bleeding at the nose. 1787 G. Greive tr. F. J. de Chastellux II. 192 [Their combat] consists in fastening on the nose or ears of their adversaries, seizing him by the genitals, and dexterously scooping out an eye. 1808 19 180 Case of Malconformation in the Genitals. 1898 Dec. 216 She disinterred the body of her babe, cut off its right hand..and the genitals, and hid them in the chimney. a1930 D. H. Lawrence (1932) 242 The jixery perhaps never picked a man's pocket But my god, they sneak-thiefed his very genitals away from him. 1973 K. Tynan 10 Apr. (2001) 133 I felt the sheet slowly turned back and a hand placed on my genitals. 1999 15 Nov. 32/1 Lap-dancing clubs, at which no stigma is attached to payting a woman £10 to give you a close look at her genitals. 2010 P. LaFrenière (2011) vi. 131 The testis [of the fetus] then secretes androgens, which masculinize the internal and external genitals. the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun] c1450 (Sloane 2464) l. 1764 With white wyn drynk it in the morwenyng, ffrom seknesse in genital kepith soget and kyng. 1607 E. Topsell 195 The Female [elephant] hath her genitall betwixte her thighes. 1653 W. Harvey v. 19 The more conspicuous Holes..obtain a contrary scituation in all fowles, from all other creatures; for in these, the Pudendum, or female genital, is seated foremost, between the right gut and the bladder. 1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone ii. i. 72/2 The genital [of the Fox] is bony as the Wolves, and Wezels. 1726 (ed. 3) at Hart One Male will cover many Females, which Females are Chaste and unwilling to admit of Copulation, by reason of the rigour of the Male's Genital. 1882 42 542 The position of the genital was occupied by a tumor, apparently a scrotum, as large as a small orange, but no sign of a penis even in a rudimentary form. 1917 tr. C. G. Jung (ed. 2) v. 198 The fig-tree, which from antiquity has been a symbol of the male genital, is to be cut down on account of its unfruitfulness. 1960 J. R. Ackerley 142 His strong yet gentle fingers would move over her [sc. a dog's] stomach, manipulating her nipples and her neat, pretty genital. 2002 B. J. Seelig in A. M. Alizade xi. 128 Freud..considered it inevitable that the girl would regard her genital as inferior. Compounds the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > herpes the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > other venereal diseases 1877 3 384 Treatment of preputial (genital) herpes. 1907 10 986 Genital herpes commonly exhibits the same tendency to recurrence as is observed in some cases of facial herpes. 1984 M. J. Taussig (ed. 2) iii. 267 The lesions of genital herpes have similar characteristics to cold sores—they are initially vesicular, then ulcerate to give raw, painful areas. 2004 Feb. 43/1 According to microbiologists, it's impossible to get mono, AIDS, chlamydia, hepatitis B and C, genital herpes, gonorrhea, or anything from a toilet seat. 1884 July 374 He instances some demonstrative facts, resting on the relations between the sexual appetites..and the intellectual; in fact, hypochondriasis and lypemania are common in individuals who have undergone genital mutilation. 1947 49 35 A surgically most remarkable genital mutilation, monorchy, the removal of one testicle, has been reported from the Hottentot. 1992 11 June 16/4 Social workers shy away from tackling genital mutilation because it is a culturally sensitive area. 2009 12 Mar. (Life section) 5/1 (caption) This woman underwent genital mutilation, but has saved her younger daughter from the ordeal. 1844 J. Richardson in R. B. Hinds I. 58 The genital papilla is large, conical, and compressed. 1902 36 897 Large suckerlike genital papilla present in front of acetabulum [in a trematode]. 2001 Feb. 91/3 The only way to be sure of their sex at this early stage is ‘venting’ (examination of the genital papillae). 1837 R. Owen in II. 139/1 Upon separating the individuals [of Planaria torva], he perceived a long white tube projecting from the genital pore of each, proving the reciprocity of fecundation. 1928 S. R. Damon xv. 196 Each proglottis bears a small lateral genital pore, almost regularly alternating from the right to the left side of the chain. 2000 A. Karlen (2001) xiv. 91 A tick's external genitals are little more than openings, called genital pores. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > other venereal diseases 1881 B. Hill & A. Cooper (ed. 2) 588 Of fifty-five patients with genital warts..forty-seven had suffered from warts elsewhere during childhood. 1937 J. F. Wilson in 68 314 In view of the previous experimental work and of clinical experience, ‘Genital Wart’ is suggested as a name for the lesion. 1972 13 Dec. a3/4 Genital warts, genital cold sores,..crab lice, scabies, and some cases of ringworm are also part of the problem of ‘Love Pollution’. 2007 K. H. Hemmings i. iii. 19 There's a vaccine for HPV, which causes genital warts and can lead to cervical cancer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  adj.n.a1382 |
