genius

• n.天才、才能、精神

原義は守護妖精で、伝説によれば、すべての人は守護妖精とともに生まれ、生涯を通じて彼らとともに成長する。映画『ライラの冒険 黄金の羅針盤』の引用。

genius

genius: [16] Latin genius originally meant ‘deity of generation and birth’. It came ultimately from the Indo-European base *gen- ‘produce’ (source of English gene, generate, genitive, etc), probably via a derivative *gnjos. It broadened out considerably in meaning, initially to ‘attendant spirit’, the sense in which English originally acquired it (French took it over as génie, a word which, because of its phonetic and semantic similarity to Arabic jinn, 18th-century translators of the Arabian nights eagerly adopted into English as genie).

The main modern English sense, ‘person of outstanding intellectual ability’, which dates from the 17th century, goes back to a comparatively rare Latin ‘intellectual capacity’. Genial [16] comes from Latin geniālis, a derivative of genius, which again originally meant ‘of generation and birth’ (a sense which survived into English: ‘And thou, glad Genius! in whose gentle hand the bridal bower and genial bed remain’, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion 1595).

It later developed in Latin to ‘pleasant, festive’.
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genius (n.)

late 14c., "tutelary or moral spirit" who guides and governs an individual through life, from Latin genius "guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation; wit, talent;" also "prophetic skill," originally "generative power" (or "inborn nature"), from PIE *gen(e)-yo-, from root *gene- "to produce, give birth, beget" (see genus). Sense of "characteristic disposition" of a person is from 1580s. Meaning "person of natural intelligence or talent" and that of "exalted natural mental ability" are first recorded 1640s.

1. I was hoping some of his genius might rub off.

彼の才能が他の人にも影響を与えることを願っています。

2.At the time,his appointment seemed a stroke of genius .

当時、彼に対する任命は神来の筆のようだった。

3.Is he a nutter，or is he a genius ？

彼は狂人なのか、天才なのか。

4.His genius was not confined to the decoration of buildings.

彼の才能は建物の装飾だけではない。

5.He last night denounced the British " genius for running ourselves down ".

昨夜、彼はイギリスの「私たちの味方を攻撃する天才」を非難した。