su·i ge·ne·ris
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-i ge-ne-ris; Eng. soo-ahy jen-er-is, soo-ee] Pronunciation Key
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-i ge-ne-ris; Eng. soo-ahy jen-er-is, soo-ee] Pronunciation Key Latin.
| of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique. |
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sui generis
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adj. Being the only example of its kind; unique: "sui generis works like Mary Chesnut's Civil War diary" (Linda Orr). [Latin suī generis : suī, of its own + generis, genitive of genus, kind.] |
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sui generis
1787, from L., lit. "of one's own kind, peculiar." First element from sui, gen. of suus "his, her, its, one's," from Old L. sovos, from PIE base *swe-, pronoun of the third person (see idiom).
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| constituting a class of its own; unique; "a history book sui generis"; "sui generis works like Mary Chestnut's Civil War diary" |
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sui generis [(sooh-ee, sooh-eye jen-uh-ris)]
A person or thing that is unique, in a class by itself: “She is an original artist; each of her paintings is sui generis.” From Latin, meaning “of its own kind.”
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Sui generis
Su"i gen"e*ris\ [L.] Of his or its own kind.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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