engender en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.
Meanings
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(obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 129, column 1:
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(transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].
1891, Henry James, “James Russell Lowell”, in Essays in London and Elsewhere, page 60:
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(transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
The performance on the Wharfedale Line is among the best on Northern's network, and Hornby says the posters, along with displays on station ticket machines and in local media, have engendered a sense of competition with managers on other lines, who want to see this type of marketing on their routes. This new in-your-face type marketing can now be seen across much of the North of England.
2026 January 21, Andy Comfort, “The RAIL Interview”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 31:Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.
1928 October 8, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time:ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Crueltie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 243:Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.
2009 December 21, Jonathan Glancey, “The art of industry”, in The Guardian:
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(intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.
a. 1700, “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, in John Dryden, transl., Poems on Various Occasions; and Translations from Several Authors, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1701, book I, page 147:
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(intransitive, obsolete) To copulate, to have sex.
I fled, but he purſu’d (though more, it ſeems, Inflam’d with luſt then rage) and ſwifter far, Me overtook his mother all diſmaid, And in embraces forcible and foule Ingendring with me, of that rape begot Theſe yelling Monſters that with ceaſleſs cry Surround me, as thou ſawſt[…]
1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 790–800:But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]
1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Kingdome of Darknesse”, in Leviathan, Or The Matter Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: Andrew Crooke, page 343:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| engendered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| engendered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| engenders | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| ingender | alternative | lexicographic | |
| engendre | alternative | lexicographic | |
| engendering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
misengender · engenderable · engenderer · engenderment
Synonyms
set off · promote · screw · create · goad · invent · pipe down · fuel · take form · do it · invoke · sleep together · lay pipe · shaboink · play · lash · goose · get laid · bone · hook up · beat · have intimate relations · manufacture · slap bellies · mother · bring about · upspring · stimulate · engender · pop up · play hide the sausage · draw · birth · bop · sire · tumble · oblige · eff · couple · inflame · sex · get physical · hide the wienie · get one's end away · abet · actuate · impel · do the nasty · grill · spring up · come into being · have sexual relations · get it on · form · boff · appear · dance · catch a dick · drive · spark off · roll around · spring · rise · pound · spring to life · have sex · bauf · graft the forked tree · father · make · get one's freak on · know · engender · shelve · excite · motive · take form · craft · surface · go all the way · get some · get up · get the dirty water off one's chest · make love · get down · ming · cheer · provoke · assemble · shag · rouse · bonk · get lucky · bump uglies · beget · share a bed · push · arise · make whoopee · contrive · become · bring forth · frick · hump · rock and roll · have it away · engender · stoke · cohabit · bang · stir up · haul one's ashes · root · forge · meddle · be born · spawn · get freaky · have it off · obligate · expletive deleted · get jiggy · encourage · strain · prompt · mate · emerge · materialize · approach · rail · whet · company · produce · generate · dip one's pen in someone's inkwell · have marital relations · get one's oats · hide the salami · get busy · take shape · clap cheeks · produce · create · do it · ferment · motivate · stir · make out · form · hike the Appalachian Trail · egg on · know someone in the biblical sense · see someone's etchings · conjure · pipe · copulate · send · frak · crack · get one's dick wet · Netflix and chill · make the beast with two backs · whip up · develop · bump nasties · frig · move · hide the sausage · spur on · inform · cause · spur · common · gin up · show someone one's etchings · foment · discuss Uganda · get it · engender · stick · light a fire under · penetrate · originate · innate · urge · fuck · give birth · materialize · do the deed · bounce · engage in sex · get one's groove on · frack · get it on · make it · have sex · spawn · sting · intercourse · knock boots · evolve · ride · boink · evoke · generate · jig-jig · tempt · ignite · instigate · lay the pipe · incite · get one's leg over · forthbring · make · breed · exchange flesh · induce · roger
Translations (47)
hu előidéz (to bring into existence, cause) · io produktar (to bring into existence, cause) · cs zplodit (to sire) · ru порожда́ть (to bring into existence, cause) · hu okoz (to bring into existence, cause) · it generare (to bring into existence, cause) · de hervorrufen (to bring into existence, cause) · cs vyvolat (to bring into existence, cause) · fi aiheuttaa (to bring into existence, cause) · sq krijoj (to bring into existence, cause) · yue 產生 /产生 (to bring into existence, cause) · txb täm- (to bring into existence, cause) · fr concevoir (to bring into existence, cause) · hy ծնել (to bring into existence, cause) · fi tuottaa (to bring into existence, cause) · hy առաջացնել (to bring into existence, cause) · cs navodit (to bring into existence, cause) · cmn 引起 (to bring into existence, cause) · hy հարուցել (to bring into existence, cause) · fr donner naissance à (to bring into existence, cause) · it concepire (to bring into existence, cause) · qu churiyay (to bring into existence, cause) · pt engendrar (to bring into existence, cause) · fi synnyttää (to bring into existence, cause) · fr donner le jour à (to bring into existence, cause) · yue 引起 (to bring into existence, cause) · bg пораждам (to bring into existence, cause) · ja 発生させる (to bring into existence, cause) · ca engendrar (to bring into existence, cause) · it originare (to bring into existence, cause) · cs plodit (to sire) · nl voortbrengen (to bring into existence, cause) · sv alstra (to bring into existence, cause) · es engendrar (to bring into existence, cause) · de herbeiführen (to bring into existence, cause) · sk splodiť (to bring into existence, cause) · sk vyvolať (to bring into existence, cause) · fi saada aikaan (to bring into existence, cause) · yue 造成 (to bring into existence, cause) · sk plodiť (to bring into existence, cause) · sk vyvolávať (to bring into existence, cause) · sv framkalla (to bring into existence, cause) · de erzeugen (to bring into existence, cause) · sv skapa (to bring into existence, cause) · ja 引き起こす (to bring into existence, cause) · fi luoda (to bring into existence, cause) · fr engendrer (to bring into existence, cause)