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ingenui
ingenui
English
Noun
ingenui
- (law) In civil law, a class of freemen who were born free. They were distinguished from the class known as liberti or libertini who, born slaves, had afterwards legally obtained their freedom.
References
- Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
Latin
Verb
ingenuī
- first-person singular perfect active indicative of ingignō
References
- INGENUI in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- ingenui in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers