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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-561/
- Published: 2021-08-12T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-25T19:24:48.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

The word for today is…

progeny (noun) –

1a : descendants, children  
b : offspring of animals or plants  
2 : outcome, product  
3 : a body of followers, disciples, or successors

Source : [Merriam -Webster](http://:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/progeny)

Etymology :Progeny is the progeny of the Latin verb progignere, meaning “to beget.” That Latin word is itself an offspring of the prefix pro-, meaning “forth,” and gignere, which can mean “to beget” or “to bring forth.” Gignere has produced a large family of English descendants, including benign (meaning “mild” or “harmless”), congenital (meaning “inherent”), engine, genius, germ, indigenous, ingenuous, and malign. Gignere even paired up with pro- again to produce a close relative of progeny: the noun progenitor, which can mean “an ancestor in the direct line,” “a biologically ancestral form,” or “a precursor or originator.”

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