GENITOR Synonyms

• writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

• someone who originates or causes or initiates something

• be the author of

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• a person who grows or makes or invents things

• terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• the founder of a family

• person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group

• a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian

• an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

• look after a child until it is an adult

• an ancestor in the direct line

• (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground

• the place where something begins, where it springs into being

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number

• the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

• the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair

• take root and begin to grow

• come into existence, originate

• cheer for

• plant by the roots

• dig with the snout

• become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

• cause to take roots

• a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority

• the founder of a family

• male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse

• make (offspring) by reproduction