Gattung
German
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German gatunge, from gaten (“to come together, to fit”), from Old High German (bi)gaton, from Proto-West Germanic *gadōn. Cognate with Dutch gading (“satisfaction”).
Pronunciation
editNomen
editGattung f (genitive Gattung, plural Gattungen)
- (biology, taxonomy) genus
- (loosely) species
- 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche, “Erstes Buch”, in Die fröhliche Wissenschaft[1], section 1; republished as Thomas Common, transl., The Gay Science, 1924:
- Ich mag nun mit gutem oder bösem Blick auf die Menschen sehen, ich finde sie immer bei einer Aufgabe, alle und jeden einzelnen insonderheit: das zu tun, was der Erhaltung der menschlichen Gattung frommt.
- Whether I look with a good or an evil eye upon men, I find them always at one problem, each and all of them: to do that which conduces to the conservation of the human species.
- (grammar) voice, gender (of verbs)
- genre
Declension
editDeclension of Gattung [feminine]
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
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editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “Gattung” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Gattung” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Gattung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Gattung” in Duden online
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