Translation
genius
Word origin
From Latin genius, the guardian spirit born with a person, from gignere, 'to beget'. The modern sense of exceptional ability grew out of that older one: your genius was first the spirit that gave you your gifts, and only later the gifts themselves.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- genius
- English cognates
- genius, genial, genus, generate
Examples
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That boy is a great genius.
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People said that he was a genius of music.
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Every genius started out as a child.
names both the person and the quality, as in English. Keep it apart from , which is a specific aptitude rather than an overwhelming one, and from , a spirit in the religious sense. The adjective is a.
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