degener

degener (third-person singular simple present degeners, present participle degenering, simple past and past participle degenered)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) Alternative form of degender (“to degenerate”)
   • 1596, Edm[und] Spenser, “An Hymne of Heavenly Love”, in Fowre Hymnes, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:

     degenering to hate

From dē- +‎ genus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.ɡe.ner/, [ˈd̪eːɡɛnɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.d͡ʒe.ner/, [ˈd̪ɛːd͡ʒener]

dēgener (genitive dēgeneris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. of inferior stock, low-born
2. inferior to one’s predecessors, degenerate

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

❇ Neut. nom. pl., acc. pl. and voc. pl. are not attested in Classical Latin, but they are attested in Modern Latin.

• dēgenerō

• “degener”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “degener”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• degener in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.