Word origin
[1400–50; late ME ‹ L, equiv. to
geni- (var. s. of
gignere to beget) +
-tor -tor; c. Gk
genétōr, Skt
janitar-]This word is first recorded in the period 1400–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: gallery, oblique, peg, separate, union