The story
- Old Latin · derived fromgenō
- Latin · borrowed fromgenius“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”
- English todaygenius
From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.
Words from the same roots
Latingenius all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.