Etymology

ingenuous

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Today it means: Naive and trusting. Full definition →

Latin ingenuus
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromingenuus“of noble character, frank”
  2. English todayingenuous

Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”). Doublet of ingenu.

Words from the same roots

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