'Generation' originates from Latin, specifically the word 'generatio,' where 'generare' meant 'to beget or produce.'

'Generatio' transformed into the Old French word 'generacion,' and eventually became the modern English word 'generation' through Middle English.

Initially, it meant 'the act of producing offspring,' but over time it evolved into its current meanings of 'a group of people born around the same time' and 'the production of something.'