Rockford Register Star: Former Lutheran star Nate Wieting stalls, for now, on long, winding road through NFL
Nate Wieting, the former Lutheran star and Iowa walk-on, has gotten a taste of NFL life the past few months, and he wants more. Wieting was cut from the New York Giants' practice squad last week, but ...
Former Lutheran star Nate Wieting stalls, for now, on long, winding road through NFL
For example, radius - radii. So is the plural for genius genii or geniuses? Genii is also, I believe, the plural for genie (djinn from middle east mythology). Edit: I mean genius as the very intelligent human being. Which version is more acceptable in daily language?
On the surface, one might think that ingenious is somehow based on the word genius. Interestingly, this is not true. The word ingenious does not actually have the in- prefix for negation. Instead, it comes originally from the Latin ingeniōsus, which means "intellectual, talented, ingenious". At times in history it was also spelled "engenious". Indeed, ingeniōsus appears to be the same root ...
Genius is the correct spelling that comes directly from Latin: word-forming element making adjectives from nouns, meaning "having, full of, having to do with, doing, inclined to," from Old French -ous, -eux, from Latin -osus.
Why is "genius" often misspelt as "geniOus"? What are its etymons ...
The simple answer is, yes. This usage of 'genius' as an adjective is relatively new and would still be considered by many (including me) as slang. In that vein, the following would also be acceptable: my genius girlfriend Your plan is genius! However, it would be more standard (and advised in formal settings) to use the word 'ingenious' in all of these examples, including your own, as it is an ...