I.of or belonging to generation or birth, causing generation or birth, fruitful, generative, genital (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf.: genialis, genetivus).
I. Adj.: “genitalia materiaï Corpora,” generative principles, elements, Lucr. 2, 62: “corpora quatuor,” the four elements, Ov. M. 15, 239: “semina,” Lucr. 5, 851; Verg. G. 2, 324: “partes (corporis),” genital parts, Lucr. 4, 1044; Col. 6, 26, 2: “membra,” Ov. Am. 2, 3, 3: “loca,” Col. 6, 36, 2: “arvum,” Verg. G. 3, 136; cf. “vulvae,” Col. 7, 9, 5; “so of plants: membra,” id. 3, 10, 12: locus, id. § 14; cf. id. 3, 6, 1: “profluvium,” Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 143; cf. id. 7, 14, 12, § 61: “foedera,” matrimony, Stat. Th. 3, 300: “menses,” the months of pregnancy in which the child may be born, Gell. 3, 16, 4: “ros,” fertilizing, Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 38: “hora anni,” i. e. in the spring, id. 9, 35, 54, § 107: dies, birth-day (usually dies natalis), Tac. A. 16, 14; also, “lux,” Stat. S. 2, 3, 62: “solum,” birth-place, natal soil, Vell. 2, 15, 1: “sedes,” Prud. Cath. 10 fin. terra, Amm. 27, 5 fin.: dii, the gods that produce everything: Romulus in caelo cum dis genitalibus aevum Degit, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 764 (Ann. v. 119 Vahl.); imitated by Aus. Per. Iliad. 4; Num. ap. Eckh. D. N. V. 7, p. 139: sterilitas, barrenness, Trebat. ap. Gell. 4, 2, 9.—
II. Subst.
A. Gĕnĭtālis , is, f., a surname of Diana, as presiding over births: “sive tu (Diana) Lucina probas vocari Seu Genitalis,” Hor. C. S. 16.—
B. gĕ-nĭtāle , is, n. (sc. membrum; “v. above, I.),” Cels. 4, 1; Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 93; 37, 10, 57, § 157; Arn. 5, 18 et saep.; in plur., id. 11, 49, 110, § 263; Quint. 1, 6, 36; Juv. 6, 514. —Hence, adv.: gĕnĭtālĭter , in a fertilizing manner, fruitfully, Lucr. 4, 1258.