different between craft vs genius

English

Etymology

From Middle English craft, from Old English cræft, from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz, further origin obscure.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???ft/

  Rhymes: -??ft

• (US) IPA^(key): /k?æft/

Noun

craft (countable and uncountable, plural craft or crafts)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) Strength; power; might; force [9th century].
2. (uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.
   1. Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity [9th century].
   2. Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [13th century].

      Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness

   3. (obsolete) Occult art, magic [13th century].
3. (countable, obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art [c. 1000].
   1. (collective or plural) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts [20th century].
4. (countable, obsolete) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment [13th century].
5. (countable, obsolete) Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities [13th century].
6. (uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession [9th century].

   Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship

7. (countable, plural crafts) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation [since the 9th century].

   Synonyms: art, trade, handicraft, business, profession

8. (countable) A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ [15th century].

9. (countable, plural craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space [since the 17th century].
   1. (nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
   2. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
   3. (figuratively) A woman.

      • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.

10. (countable, fishing) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. [17th century].

Usage notes

The plural craft is used to refer to vehicles. All other senses use the plural crafts.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

craft (third-person singular simple present crafts, present participle crafting, simple past and past participle crafted)

1. To make by hand and with much skill.
2. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).

   state crafting; the process of crafting global policing

3. (video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Derived terms

• crafter
• uncrafted

Translations

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1 (journal website).

Anagrams

• fract

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

• kraft, creft

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kraft-.

Noun

craft f

1. strength, power, force

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: cracht, craft
  • Dutch: kracht
    • Afrikaans: krag
  • Limburgish: krach

Further reading

• “kraht”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

English

Etymology

From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gign? (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin gen?, from the Proto-Indo-European root *?enh?-. Doublet of genio. See also genus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?in.j?s/, /?d?i.ni.?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?i?.n??s/
• Rhymes: -i?ni?s

Noun

genius (plural geniuses or genii)

1. Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:genius

   Antonym: idiot

2. Extraordinary mental capacity.
3. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.

4. (Roman mythology) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
   • 1715, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture

     We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.

   Synonyms: tutelary deity; see also Thesaurus:spirit

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

genius (not comparable)

1. (informal) ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.

Translations

Further reading

• genius in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• genius in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "genius" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 143.

Anagrams

• Seguin

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• jenius

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gign? (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin gen?, from the Proto-Indo-European root *?enh?-. Doublet of enjin, insinyur, and zeni.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [?e?ni?s]
• (common) IPA^(key): [d?e?ni?s]
• Hyphenation: gé?ni?us

Adjective

genius

1. genius: ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “genius” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?enh?- (“to beget”), perhaps through Old Latin gen? (“to beget, give birth; to produce, cause”). Comparisons with Aramaic ????? (ginnaya, “tutelary deity”), and with Arabic ????? (jinn, “jinn, spirit, demon”) and ??????? (jan?n, “embryo, germ”), suggest the effects of an older substrate word.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??e.ni.us/, [???ni?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??e.ni.us/, [?d????nius]

Noun

genius m (genitive geni? or gen?); second declension

1. the deity or guardian spirit of a person, place, etc.; a daemon, a daimon (cf. Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n))
2. an inborn nature or innate character, especially (though not exclusively) as endowed by a personal (especially tutelar) spirit or deity.
3. (with respect to the enjoyment of life) the spirit of social enjoyment, fondness for good living, taste, appetite, inclinations
4. (of the intellect) wit, talents, genius (rare)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Quotations

• Catullus[,] Tibullus and Pervigilium Veneris, 1921, page 328f. containing Albius Tibullus III, XI, 9f. = IV, V, 9f. with a translation into English by J. P. Postgate:

  magne Geni, cape tura libens votisque faveto,
  si modo, cum de me cogitat, ille calet.

  Great Genius, take this incense with a will, and smile upon my prayer, if only when he thinks on me his pulse beats high.

Descendants

References

• genius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• genius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• genius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• genius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• genius in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• genius in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• genius in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin genius.

Noun

genius m (definite singular geniusen, indefinite plural genier, definite plural geniene)

1. genius

References

• “genius” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin genius.

Noun

genius m (definite singular geniusen, indefinite plural geniusar, definite plural geniusane)

1. genius

References

• “genius” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.