noun.
An abbreviation of gender; of genera; of generally; of generic; of genus.
noun.
An abbreviation of general; genitive.
noun.
An obsolete variant of gin.
noun.
An abbreviation of Geneva or Genevan.
noun.
An abbreviation of Genesis; General (as a title).
noun.
A terminal element in words from or made after the Latin or Greek, meaning primarily ‘produce,’ and taken either passively, ‘born,’ ‘produced,’ as in acrogen, endogen, exogen, etc., that which is produced or grows at the top, from within, from without, etc., or actively, ‘producing,’ ‘serving to produce,’ as in hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, etc., that which produces or serves to produce water, acid, nitric acid, etc. The corresponding adjective is in -genic or -genous, and the abstract noun, if any, is in -geny.