Genre

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early 19th century: French, literally ‘a kind’ (see gender).


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Borrowed from French genre(“kind”), from Latin genus, generem (cognate with Ancient Greek γένος(génos)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os. Doublet of gender, genus, and kin.


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genre (n.)

1770, "particular style of art," a French word in English (nativized from c. 1840), from French genre "kind, sort, style" (see gender (n.)). Used especially in French for "independent style." In painting, as an adjective, "depicting scenes of ordinary life" (a domestic interior or village scene, as compared to landscape, historical, etc.) from 1849.