It's the word of the day for June 3rd.

Today's word is engender, spelled E-N-G-E-N-D-R. Engender is a verb. It's a formal word that means

to be the source or cause of something.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Vogue.

During a moment defined by anti-intellectualism, escapism, and AI tools that let you skip cognitive work entirely,

intellectual creators are doing something kind of countercultural,

says Death to Stocks Culture Researcher, Aegis Panzoni. These influencers, who have already built

established communities around intellectual pursuits, hold greater meaning and engender more trust.

A good paragraph about the word engender will engender understanding in the reader.

Like its synonym generate, engender comes from the Latin verb, generare, meaning to generate or to beget.

And when the word was first used in the 14th century and gender meant

propagate or procreate, that literal meaning having to do with creating offspring, which generate

shared when it was adopted in the early 16th century, was soon joined by the to cause to exist

or develop, to produce, meaning, most familiar to us today.

Generare didn't just engender, generate, and engender. Regenerate, degenerate, and

generation have the same Latin root. As you might suspect, the list of engender relatives does

not end there.

Generare comes from the Latin noun genus, meaning origin or kind.

From this source, we took our own word, genus, plus gender, general, and generic, among other words.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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