Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Generá-re, v. a.
1. to generate, get, beget, engender, procreate; 2. to produce, bring forth;3. to breed, cause, originate; 4. to occasion, induce; 5. to cause to come; v. r. to grow, spring, rise, proceed, to form itself; s. m.Generá-tóre , f. Generá-tríce; adj. Generá-nte.
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generare: to ingender or beget as the male. Also to conceiue, to beare or bring foorth as the female. Also to create, to breed, to make to inuent.