-geny

-geny
comb. form forming nouns meaning 'mode of production or development of' (anthropogeny; ontogeny; pathogeny).
Etymology: F -geacutenie (as -GEN, -Y(3))

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\\jənē, -ni\ noun combining form (-es)
Etymology: Greek -geneia act of being born, from -genēs born + -ia -y — more at -gen
: generation : production : science of origin

chrondrogeny

morphogeny

ontogeny

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a combining form meaning "origin," used in the formation of compound words: phylogeny.
[1885-90; < Gk -geneia. See -GEN, -Y3]

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-geny /-jə-ni/
combining form
Signifying production, development, origin
ORIGIN: Gr -geneia, from -genēs born

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comb. form denoting the mode by which something develops or is produced

orogeny | organogeny

Origin:
related to French -génie; both forms derive from Greek -geneia, from gen- (root of gignomai ‘be born, become’ and genos ‘a kind’)

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-geny
suffix = mod.F. -génie, in mod. scientific language appended to Gr. stems to form ns. with the general sense ‘mode of production (of something specified)’, as in anthropogeny, biogeny, cosmogeny, geogeny, ontogeny, phylogeny, physiogeny, etc. Most of these ns. have either corresponding ns. in -genesis, or adjs. -genetic (in many instances both of these).
[The suffix may be regarded as representing Gr. -γένεια, the ending of abstract ns. f. adjs. in -γενής (as in ὁµογένεια, f. ὁµογενής): see -gen. But in all probability it was actually f. the root gen- in genesis, etc. (vaguely apprehended as meaning ‘to produce’) + -y3, F. -ie.]

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