ingenuous
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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ingenuous †noble-minded; honourably straightforward XVI; free-born XVII. f. L.
ingenuus native, free-born, noble, frank, f.
IN-1 + *
gen-, base of
gignere beget; see
KIN,
-UOUS.
So
ingenuity A. †free-born condition; †nobility of character; ingenuousness (now rare); B. †intellectual capacity XVI; skill in contriving XVII. — L.
ingenuitās. The uses of branch B are peculiarly Eng. and depend on confusion with
INGENIOUS in XVI–XVII.
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