generatim
Latin
Etymology
genus, gener- (“kind”) + -ātim
Adverb
generātim (not comparable)
- by kinds, species, tribes, classes or divisions
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.19:
- Generatimque distributi in civitates
- and being distributed in tribes according to their respective states
- Generatimque distributi in civitates
- in general, generally
References
- “generatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “generatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- generatim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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