genius
ge·nius
noun
1.
someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
- “Mozart was a child genius”
- “he”
- “s no Einstein”
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Origin
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.
Phrases
- bonus genius
- dumb genius
- evil genius
- genius familiae
- genius hominis
- genius loci
- genius locorum
- malus genius
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