Maschile

génio

Senso (Inglese)

  1. (Roman, masculine) genius
  2. (masculine) genius
  3. (masculine) genie, jinn (a spirit, either good or evil, of pre-Islamic and Islamic mythology)
  4. (masculine) irritability (the tendency of getting angry, annoyed)

Traduzioni

Frequenza

B1
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈʒɛ.nju/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin genius. The sense of genie is also a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy) (compare French génie).

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