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engineer
English
Etymology
From Middle English engyneour, engineour, from Old French engigneor, engignier, from engin or from Medieval Latin ingeniator (“one who creates or one who uses an engine”), from ingenium (“nature, native talent, skill”), from in (“in”) + gignere (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genere; see ingenious hence "one who produces or generates [new] things". Sometimes erroneously linked with engine +? -eer (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nd????n??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nd????n??/
- Hyphenation: en?gi?neer
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
engineer (plural engineers)
- A person who is qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering.
- (Philippines) A title given to an engineer.
- (chiefly US) A person who controls motion of substance (such as a locomotive).
- (nautical) A person employed in the engine room of a ship.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "engineer": agricultural, mechanical, electrical, civil, architectural, environmental, industrial, optical, nuclear, structural, chemical, military, electronic, professional, chartered, licensed, certified, qualified.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Burmese: ??????????? (anggyangniya)
- ? Hawaiian: ?enekinia
- ? Hindi: ???????? (iñj?niyar)
- ? Japanese: ????? (enjinia)
Translations
Verb
engineer (third-person singular simple present engineers, present participle engineering, simple past and past participle engineered)
- (transitive) To design, construct or manage something as an engineer.
- (transitive) To alter or construct something by means of genetic engineering.
- (transitive) To plan or achieve some goal by contrivance or guile; to wangle or finagle.
- (transitive) To control motion of substance; to change motion.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To work as an engineer.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- engineer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- engineer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “engineer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- re-engine, reengine
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genius
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)
- 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
- Extraordinary mental capacity.
- Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
- (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
- 1715, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
genius (not comparable)
- (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
- 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
- the deity or guardian spirit of a person, place, etc.; a daemon, a daimon (cf. Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n))
- an inborn nature or innate character, especially (though not exclusively) as endowed by a personal (especially tutelar) spirit or deity.
- (with respect to the enjoyment of life) the spirit of social enjoyment, fondness for good living, taste, appetite, inclinations
- (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.
- magne Geni, cape tura libens votisque faveto,
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)
- 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)
- genius
References
- “genius” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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