From Latin 'genus' (birth, kind), from PIE *ǵenh₁- — ancestor of 'general,' 'gentle,' 'genius,' 'gene,' 'gender,' and 'genre.'
A Latin word meaning 'birth, origin, race, kind, class,' used in English as both a direct borrowing (biological taxonomy) and the ancestor of dozens of common words relating to birth, kind, and production.
From Proto-Italic *genos, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁- meaning 'to beget, to produce, to give birth.' The Latin noun genus (stem gener-) belonged to the third declension and covered an enormous semantic range: birth, descent, origin, race, stock, kind, class, sort, and type. Its oblique stem gener- is the source of most English