ingeniosus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵn̥h₁etider.

Proto-Italic

Latin gignō

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ium

Latin ingenium

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos

Latin -ōsus

Latin ingeniōsus

From ingenium + -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋ.ɡɛ.niˈoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.niˈɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

ingeniōsus (feminine ingeniōsa, neuter ingeniōsum, comparative ingeniōsior, superlative ingeniōsissimus, adverb ingeniōsē); first/second-declension adjective

1. superior in intellect, gifted with genius; intellectual, clever, ingenious
2. apt, fit for, adapted to

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ingeniōsus	ingeniōsa	ingeniōsum		ingeniōsī	ingeniōsae	ingeniōsa
genitive	ingeniōsī	ingeniōsae	ingeniōsī		ingeniōsōrum	ingeniōsārum	ingeniōsōrum
dative	ingeniōsō	ingeniōsae	ingeniōsō		ingeniōsīs
accusative	ingeniōsum	ingeniōsam	ingeniōsum		ingeniōsōs	ingeniōsās	ingeniōsa
ablative	ingeniōsō	ingeniōsā	ingeniōsō		ingeniōsīs
vocative	ingeniōse	ingeniōsa	ingeniōsum		ingeniōsī	ingeniōsae	ingeniōsa

Derived terms

• ingeniōsē

Descendants

• Catalan: enginyós
• Galician: enxeñoso
• Italian: ingegnoso
• → Middle French:
  • French: ingénieux
  • → English: ingenious
• Old French: engignos
  • → English: enginous
• Portuguese: engenhoso
• Sicilian: ncignusu
• → Spanish: ingenioso

References

• “ingeniosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ingeniosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ingeniosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man of ability: vir magno ingenio, ingeniosus