Begeten

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Archaic past participle meaning fathered or produced, used of a parent who has brought a child into existence
2. An old form of the past participle meaning having been fathered or brought into being by a parent
3. Obsolete past participle signifying that someone was sired or generated, in the sense of having been born of a father

Etymology: "Begeten" is an older past participle of "beget," the form that Middle English and early Modern English writers used where modern English says "begotten." "Beget" comes from Old English "begietan," meaning "to obtain or acquire," formed from the prefix "be-" and "getan" ("to get"), and its sense narrowed to "father or produce offspring" over the Middle English period.

Synonyms: beget, father, sire