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Lewis Short
(adj.adv.) : ingĕnŭus, a, um, adj.ingeno, ingigno.
* Native, indigenous, not foreign.
* Lit.: fontes,Lucr. 1, 230: tophus,produced in the country,Juv. 3, 20.
* Free-born, born of free parents.
* In gen.: ingenuus homo meant formerly one born of a certain or known father, who can cite his father: en unquam fando audistis patricios primo esse factos, non de caelo demissos, sed qui patrem ciere possent, id est nihil ultra quam ingenuos,Liv. 10, 8, 10: ingenui clarique parentes,Hor. S. 1, 6, 91; 1, 6, 8.—Esp., subst.: ingĕnŭus, i, m., and ingĕnŭa, ae, f., a free-born man or woman: ingenui sunt qui liberi nati sunt; libertini, qui ex justa servitute manumissi sunt,Gai. Inst. 1, 11: tutela liberantur ingenuae, etc.,id. ib. 1, 194; but this word differs from liber, inasmuch as the latter signifies also a freedman,Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 15: ingenuamne an libertinam,id. ib. 3, 1, 189: omnis ingenuorum adest multitudo,Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 15: Patricios Cincius ait appellari solitos, qui nunc ingenui vocentur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 241 Müll.: libertinos ab ingenuis adoptari posse, Masur. ap. Gell. 5, 19, 11.
* In partic.
* Worthy of a freeman, noble, upright, frank, candid, ingenuous (syn. liberalis): nihil apparet in eo ingenuum,Cic. Phil. 3, 11, 28; id. Off. 1, 42: timiditas,id. de Or. 2, 3: dolor,id. Phil. 10, 9, 18: vita,id. Fam. 5, 21, 3: est animi ingenui (with inf.), id. ib. 2, 6, 2: ingenuis studiis atque artibus delectari,id. Fin. 5, 18, 48: (with humanae) artes,id. de Or. 3, 6, 21: ingenui vultus puer ingenuique pudoris,Juv. 11, 154: amor,Hor. C. 1, 27, 16: per gemitus nostros ingenuasque cruces,and by such sufferings on the part of a freeman as belong only to slaves,Mart. 10, 82, 6: fastidium,Cic. Brut. 67: aperte odisse magis ingenui est, quam, etc.,id. Lael. 18, 65: astuta ingenuum vulpes imitata leonem,Hor. S. 2, 3, 186.
* Weakly, delicate, tender (free-born persons being less inured to hardships than slaves; poet.): invalidae vires, ingenuaeque mihi,Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 72: gula,Mart. 10, 82, 6.—Hence, adv.: ingĕnŭē, in a manner befitting a person of free or noble birth, liberally; openly, frankly, ingenuously: educatus,Cic. Fin. 3, 11, 38: aperte atque ingenue confiteri,id. Fam. 5, 2, 2; id. Att. 13, 27, 1: pro suis dicere,Quint. 12, 3, 3.
* Native, indigenous, not foreign.
* Lit.: fontes,Lucr. 1, 230: tophus,produced in the country,Juv. 3, 20.
* Free-born, born of free parents.
* In gen.: ingenuus homo meant formerly one born of a certain or known father, who can cite his father: en unquam fando audistis patricios primo esse factos, non de caelo demissos, sed qui patrem ciere possent, id est nihil ultra quam ingenuos,Liv. 10, 8, 10: ingenui clarique parentes,Hor. S. 1, 6, 91; 1, 6, 8.—Esp., subst.: ingĕnŭus, i, m., and ingĕnŭa, ae, f., a free-born man or woman: ingenui sunt qui liberi nati sunt; libertini, qui ex justa servitute manumissi sunt,Gai. Inst. 1, 11: tutela liberantur ingenuae, etc.,id. ib. 1, 194; but this word differs from liber, inasmuch as the latter signifies also a freedman,Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 15: ingenuamne an libertinam,id. ib. 3, 1, 189: omnis ingenuorum adest multitudo,Cic. Cat. 4, 7, 15: Patricios Cincius ait appellari solitos, qui nunc ingenui vocentur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 241 Müll.: libertinos ab ingenuis adoptari posse, Masur. ap. Gell. 5, 19, 11.
* In partic.
* Worthy of a freeman, noble, upright, frank, candid, ingenuous (syn. liberalis): nihil apparet in eo ingenuum,Cic. Phil. 3, 11, 28; id. Off. 1, 42: timiditas,id. de Or. 2, 3: dolor,id. Phil. 10, 9, 18: vita,id. Fam. 5, 21, 3: est animi ingenui (with inf.), id. ib. 2, 6, 2: ingenuis studiis atque artibus delectari,id. Fin. 5, 18, 48: (with humanae) artes,id. de Or. 3, 6, 21: ingenui vultus puer ingenuique pudoris,Juv. 11, 154: amor,Hor. C. 1, 27, 16: per gemitus nostros ingenuasque cruces,and by such sufferings on the part of a freeman as belong only to slaves,Mart. 10, 82, 6: fastidium,Cic. Brut. 67: aperte odisse magis ingenui est, quam, etc.,id. Lael. 18, 65: astuta ingenuum vulpes imitata leonem,Hor. S. 2, 3, 186.
* Weakly, delicate, tender (free-born persons being less inured to hardships than slaves; poet.): invalidae vires, ingenuaeque mihi,Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 72: gula,Mart. 10, 82, 6.—Hence, adv.: ingĕnŭē, in a manner befitting a person of free or noble birth, liberally; openly, frankly, ingenuously: educatus,Cic. Fin. 3, 11, 38: aperte atque ingenue confiteri,id. Fam. 5, 2, 2; id. Att. 13, 27, 1: pro suis dicere,Quint. 12, 3, 3.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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