different between ingenue vs ingen

English

Alternative forms

• ingénue

Etymology

Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n??nu/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æn?e??nju?/

Noun

ingenue (plural ingenues)

1. An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
2. (theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.

   Hypernym: stock character

   Coordinate terms: girl next door, femme fatale, damsel in distress

   • 2012, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969, McFarland (?ISBN), page 396:

     The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.

3. (rare) Misspelling of ingenu.

Usage notes

The corresponding masculine term, ingenu, is poorly known, and so the feminine term is sometimes used in a gender-neutral or masculine way. (See the 2002 citation, where the explicit masculine French is feminized in English.)

Related terms

• ingenu, ingenuous

Translations

Further reading

• ingénue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Guienne, eugenin, genuine, unigene

Italian

Adjective

ingenue f pl

1. feminine plural of ingenuo

Noun

ingenue f

1. plural of ingenua

Anagrams

• genuine

Latin

Adjective

ingenue

1. vocative masculine singular of ingenuus

References

• ingenue in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ingenue in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ingenue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse engi, enginn, from einn (“one”) +? -gi (“not”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /en??n/, [?e???]

Pronoun

ingen (neuter intet, plural ingen)

1. (determiner) no

   Jeg har ingen penge.

   I have no money.

2. (pronoun) no one, nobody, nothing, neither, none

   Ingen har set ham siden i morges.

   Noone has seen him since this morning.

See also

• nogen

Hungarian

Etymology

ing +? -en

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?i???n]
• Hyphenation: in?gen

Noun

ingen

1. superessive singular of ing

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse engi, enginn.

Pronoun

ingen (feminine inga, masculine ingen, neuter intet, plural ingen)

1. no; no one; nobody; nothing
2. neither
3. none

Adjective

ingen

1. no; not any

Derived terms

• ingenmannsland
• ingen nyheter er gode nyheter

References

• “ingen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse engi, enginn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²????n/ (example of pronunciation)

Determiner

ingen (masculine ingen, feminine inga, neuter inkje, plural ingen)

1. no

Pronoun

ingen (masculine ingen, feminine inga, neuter inkje, plural ingen)

1. no one; nobody
2. neither
3. none

Derived terms

• ingenmannsland
• ingenting

References

• “ingen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ginen

Old Irish

Etymology 1

From Primitive Irish ??????? (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigen?, from Proto-Indo-European *?enh?- ‘to produce, beget’; compare Latin indigena (“native”) and Ancient Greek ?????? (engón?, “granddaughter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?in???en/

Noun

ingen f (genitive ingine)

2. daughter
3. maiden, virgin, young woman

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle Irish: ingen
  • Irish: iníon, inghean, inín
  • Manx: inneen
  • Scottish Gaelic: nighean, nigheann, inghean
• ? Middle Irish: ingenas

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *ang??n?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nog?-, *h?nog??-.

Cognate with Welsh ewin, Breton ivin; and with Latin unguis, English nail, Ancient Greek ???? (ónux), Russian ??????? (nógot?), Sanskrit ?? (nakhá).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i????en/

Noun

ingen f (genitive ingen)

2. nail (fingernail, toenail)

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: ionga
• Manx: ingin
• Scottish Gaelic: ionga

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 ingen (‘daughter’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 ingen (‘nail’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, § 24

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ængin, from Old Norse engi, enginn, from einn (“one”) + -gi (privative suffix).

Pronunciation

Determiner

ingen (neuter inget, plural inga)

1. no

Pronoun

ingen (neuter inget, plural inga)

1. no one, nobody, none

Usage notes

The neuter form inget is also used for inanimates, i.e. in the sense "nothing".

See also

• ingen alls