(adjective) : ingĕnĭōsus (ingĕnŭ-), a, um, ingenium
* Intellectual, superior in intellect, endowed with a good capacity, gifted with genius, of good natural talents or abilities, clever, ingenious.
* Lit.: Aristoteles quidem ait, omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse,Cic. Tusc. 1, 33, 80: ingeniosi vocantur,id. Fin. 5, 13, 36: vir ingeniosus et eruditus,id. Att. 14, 20, 3: quo quisque est solertior et ingeniosior,id. Rosc. Com. 11, 31: homo ingeniosissimus,id. Mur. 30, 62: ad aliquid,Ov. M. 11, 313: dandis ingeniosa notis,id. Am. 1, 11, 4: esse in aliqua re, Mart. praef. 1: in poenas,Ov. Tr. 2, 342: res est ingeniosa dare,giving requires good sense,id. Am. 1, 8, 62.
* Transf., of inanimate things.
* Ingenious, clever: argumentum,Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 69.
* Adapted to, apt, fit for any thing: vox mutandis ingeniosa sonis,Ov. Am. 2, 6, 18: terra ingeniosa colenti,id. H. 6, 117: ad segetes ager,id. F. 4, 684.—Sup.: ingenuosissimus,Inscr. Murat. 1742, 15.— Adv.: ingĕnĭōsē, acutely, wittily, ingeniously: tractantur ista ingeniose,Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87: electas res collocare,id. Inv. 1, 6, 81: dicere,Quint. 1, 6, 36.— Comp., Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 42.— Sup.: homo ingeniosissime nequam,Vell. 2, 48, 3.

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