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palingenesia

noun /ˌpæ.lɪn.d͡ʒɪˈniːzɪ.ə/

  1. Rebirth; regeneration.

    countable, uncountable

    All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew, and so, in endless palingenesia, lives and works.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Late Latin palingenesia (“rebirth; regeneration”), from Koine Greek παλιγγενεσία (palingenesía, “rebirth”), from Ancient Greek πᾰ́λῐν (pắlĭn, “again, anew, once more”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn (end-over-end); to revolve around; to dwell, sojourn”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “creation; manner of birth; origin, source”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry palingenesia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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