gĕnĭtālis, e, adj. [geno, gigno], 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.