/beget-meaning-etymology
-) Verb.
-) Pronunciation and accent: bɪgɛt.
-) Etymology: from Middle English bigeten “to get, beget”, from AS. begitan “to get”, from be- + gitan.
-) Preterite tense: begot.
-) Preterite participle: begot, or begotten.
-) Present participle: begetting.
-) It is dated from the end of 1000.
-) Transitive: -) 1. Obsolete meaning: to get, to acquire (usually by effort).
-) 2. (Of a male) to cause to exist (a child) by generation; to become the generator or the begetter of (a new being).
-) Synonyms for “beget”: to sire, father, engender.
-) Translation: engendrer, in French; engendrar, in Spanish; generare, in Italian.
-) With the preposition “on” (or upon, of) + noun of the female who conceives the child:
When men live in peace, they covet war, detesting quietness, deposing kings, […] murdering some men to beget children of their wives.
R. Burton… The Anatomy of Melancholy… 1621
… on whom he had begotten a son.
The Wiltshire archaeological… magazine… 1878
-) 3. Metaphor:
It is not the boastful sentiment begotten of champagne, or the defiant courage of port.
C. Lever… One of them… 1861
The wide circulation of the Magazine begets readers, and readers beget contributors.
J. Loudon… The magazine of natural history… 1829
-) Words derived from the verb BEGET: begetter, begetting.
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