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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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attribute
English
Etymology
From Latin attributus past participle of attribuere.
Pronunciation
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æt??bju?t/
- (General American) enPR: ??tr?-byo?ot', IPA(key): /?æt????bjut/
- Rhymes: -æt??bju?t
- Hyphenation: at?tri?bute
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??t??bju?t/
- (General American) enPR: ?-tr??byo?ot', IPA(key): /??t???bjut/
- Rhymes: -?bju?t
- Hyphenation: at?trib?ute
Noun
attribute (plural attributes)
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- His finest attribute is his kindness.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun, a qualifier.
- In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
- (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
- This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
- A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.
- (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
- Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.
- 2003, Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, C# in a Nutshell (page 536)
- This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires
SocketPermission
of the declared form.
- This attribute is used to declare in metadata that the attributed method or class requires
- (computer graphics, dated) A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.
- 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17
- […] you can only carry two objects, your attributes clash when you walk past multi-coloured objects and your enemies fly up and down from the ceiling.
- 1989, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers
- If any of the video buffer's background attribute bits are on, MONO converts the attribute to 70h (inverse video).
- 1987, Marcus Berkmann, Sceptre Of Bagdad (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 17
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived terms
Related terms
- attributive
Translations
Verb
attribute (third-person singular simple present attributes, present participle attributing, simple past and past participle attributed)
- To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.
- To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.
- This poem is attributed to Browning.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 278:
- H?kim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- attribute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- attribute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- ribattute
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /at.tri?bu?.te/, [ät?????bu?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /at.tri?bu.te/, [?t???i?bu?t??]
Adjective
attrib?te
- vocative masculine singular of attrib?tus
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