Latin
ingenium
‘innate or natural quality, nature, genius, a genius, an invention, a war-engine’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin ingenium.
5 English words in this record descend from Latin ingenium, most familiar first.
- engine ← engyn
- engineer ← enginour ← enginour
- ingenious ← ingénieux ← engenious ← ingeniōsus
- engenho ← engenno
- ingeny
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Etymograph / Latin ingenium