Noun: generic
| Singular | generic |
| Plural | generics |
Sample Sentences
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[…]a male-centered perspective[…]has resulted in false generics in everyday life[…] [1998, Jacqueline A. Dienemann, Nursing administration: managing patient care:]
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Where the generic of an English-language place name has been translated into French, it is essential to restore it to its original English form when translating the French document into English. [2024 July 29, “geographical names: translation”, in Writing Tips Plus, Ottawa: Translation Bureau, retrieved 09 Nov 2024:]
Nouns inflected like generic
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic. See: Latin Nouns '
genus'.