genet

See also: Genet and genêt

English

WOTD – 8 January 2012

Common genet (Genetta genetta)

Wikispecies

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt
• Homophone: jennet

Etymology 1

From Middle English genet, ionet, from Anglo-Norman genette, Middle French genette, jenette et al., of uncertain origin.

Noun

genet (countable and uncountable, plural genets)

1. Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.
2. The fur of this mammal, or any skin dressed in imitation of it.

Derived terms

• common genet (Genetta genetta)
• Abyssinian genet (Genetta abyssinica)
• Angolan genet (Genetta angolensis)
• aquatic genet (Genetta piscivora)
• Bourlon's genet (Genetta bourlonii)
• Cape genet (Genetta tigrina)
• Ethiopian genet (Genetta abyssinica)
• European genet (Genetta genetta)
• giant genet, giant forest genet (Genetta victoriae)
• Hausa genet (Genetta thierryi)
• Johnston's genet (Genetta johnstoni)
• king genet (Genetta poensis)
• large-spotted genet (Genetta tigrina)
• miombo genet (Genetta angolensis)
• panther genet (Genetta maculata)
• pardine genet (Genetta pardina)
• rusty-spotted genet (Genetta maculata)
• servaline genet (Genetta servalina)
• small-spotted genet (Genetta genetta)

Translations

mammal of the genus Genetta

• Afrikaans: muskeljaatkat
• Arabic: زُرَيْقَاء m (zurayqāʔ)
• Asturian: xineta (ast), llegra (ast)
• Basque: katajineta
• Bedjond: tāgɨ̄
• Catalan: geneta (ca) f, gat mesquer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獛 (zh) (pú)

• Djimini: cɛngɛ
• Dutch: genet (nl)
• Esperanto: genoto
• Finnish: genetti (fi)
• French: genette (fr) f
• Galician: algaria (gl) m, rebisaco m, rabilongo m, gato de algalia m, corredoira f
• Georgian: ვივერა (vivera)
• German: Genette n, Ginsterkatze (de) f
• Hungarian: petymeg (hu)
• Italian: genetta (it) f
• Karang: ɓele
• Mbay: tāgɨ̄
• Ngambay: tāgɨ̄
• Njyem: sii
• Portuguese: gineta (pt) f
• Romanian: genetă (ro) f, ginetă (ro) f
• Russian: гене́тта (ru) f (genétta), гене́та (ru) f (genéta)
• Spanish: jineta (es) f, gineta (es) f
• Swahili: kanu
• Swedish: genett c
• Wolof: yoolaan

Etymology 2

Coined in the 20th century from gene +‎ -et.

Noun

genet (plural genets)

1. (biology) A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets.

Translations

(biology) group of genetically identical individuals

• Finnish: klooniyhdyskunta
• Italian: genet m
• Portuguese: geneta (pt) m, genet (pt) m

See also

• ortet
• ramet

Etymology 3

See jennet.

Noun

genet (plural genets)

1. A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 109-113:

     Because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians, you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse. You’ll have your nephews neigh to you. You’ll have coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.

Anagrams

• tenge

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic زَنَاتِي (zanáti), the tribe of the Zenata Berbers, exceptional horsemen. Cfr zenete, jinete.

Noun

genet m (plural genets, feminine geneta)

1. rider, horseman

Further reading

• “genet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• genen

Noun

genet n or m

1. definite neuter singular of gen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• genen

Noun

genet n or m

1. definite neuter singular of gen

Portuguese

Noun

genet m (plural genets)

1. Alternative form of geneta