progeny

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈprɑdʒəni/ UK /ˈprɒdʒəni/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person's descendants or an animal's offspring

The prize bull sired healthy progeny across three farms.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person's descendants or... offspring descendants issue children scions posterity brood young

Opposites

ancestor progenitor forebear parent

Word family

Forms progenitive

Related forms progenitorprogenitiveengender

Etymology

From Old French progenie, from Latin progenies ('descendants, offspring'), from progignere ('to beget'), from pro- ('forth') + gignere ('to beget').

progenie Old French progenies Latin gignere Latin *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European

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People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# progeny

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈprɑdʒəni/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈprɒdʒəni/

## Meanings
1. a person's descendants or an animal's offspring

## Examples
- The prize bull sired healthy progeny across three farms.

## Synonyms
- offspring
- descendants
- issue
- children
- scions
- posterity
- brood
- young

## Antonyms
- ancestor
- progenitor
- forebear
- parent

## Related Forms
- progenitor
- progenitive
- engender

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: progenie
- Root: progenies
- Root: gignere
- Root: *ǵenh₁-

## Etymology
From Old French progenie, from Latin progenies ('descendants, offspring'), from progignere ('to beget'), from pro- ('forth') + gignere ('to beget').

## AI Etymology
Progeny is from Old French progenie, from Latin progenies ('descendants, offspring'), from progignere ('to beget'), from pro- ('forth') + gignere ('to beget'). Important recorded forms include progenie (Old French), progenies (Latin), gignere (Latin), and *ǵenh₁- (Proto-Indo-European). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers a person's descendants or an animal's offspring. The wider family includes related words such as progenitor, progenitive, and engender.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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