geniture
/ˈdʒɛnɪtʃə
/noun archaic
A person’s birth or parentage.It doth also portend in some genitures sudden preferment, but an unlucky end thereof....
- In this little tract, the ingenious Artist may meet with a concise method for calculating and judging a nativity; unto which I refer the desirous reader for further satisfaction in this geniture.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French geniture or Latin genitura, from the root of gignere 'beget'.