Genesis

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 43

jen′e-sis, n. generation, creation, or production: the first book of the Bible, so called from its containing an account of the Creation:— pl. Gen′esēs .— adjs. Genes′iac , - al , Genes it′ic , pertaining to Genesis. [L.,—Gr.,— gignesthai , to beget.]