ingenio.
THE SHORT MEANINGIngenuity or inventiveness.
Ideas & craftMeaning & usage
genius, wit, ingeniousness (faculty to reason and invent quickly)
intuition, creative faculty
skill, cleverness
sense of humor
machine, device
war machine
mill, esp. a sugar mill
instrument used by bookbinders to cut the edge of books
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵn̥h₁etider. Proto-Italic Latin gignō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin ingeniumbor. Spanish ingenio Borrowed from Latin ingenium. Doublet of engeño.
first-person singular present indicative of ingeniar
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