Latin

Adjective

ingenuus m ‎(feminine ingenua, neuter ingenuum); first/second declension

1. natural, indigenous
2. freeborn
3. noble, upright, frank, candid, ingenuous
4. delicate, tender

Inflection

First/second declension.

Descendants

• French: ingénu, ingénue
• Spanish: ingenuo, ingenua

References

• ingenuus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ingenuus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ingenuus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the sciences; the fine arts: optima studia, bonae, optimae, liberales, ingenuae artes, disciplinae
    
  • to receive a liberal education: liberaliter, ingenue, bene educari
    
• ingenuus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ingenuus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• ingenuus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin