Words that come from Latin “genius”

72 words across 17 languages descend from Latin genius — including genius, genial, congenial, genie, uncongenial, genially, genii, geniality.

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English (28)

Hungarian (8)

Italian (6)

French (5)

Latin (4)

German (4)

Dutch (3)

Spanish (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Middle French (1)

Catalan (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Danish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Romanian (1)

Portuguese (1)