génio

Meaning

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)

Concepts

genius

brain

🧠

brilliance

jinn

intelligence

Synonyms

brilho

gênio

talento

gênia

jinn

Translations

genio

génie

🧞

geni

ιδιοφυία

genie

Genie

μεγαλοφυία

djinn

caractère

brillantor

جِنّ

τζίνι

jinn

talent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʒɛ.nju/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin: genius

Borrowed from Arabic: جِنّ

In summary

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