Ingenium

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  • Alain Pons Paris X Nanterre University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22240/sent22.01.183

Abstract

The word ingenium, used in colloquial Latin from antiquity, and in philosophical Latin – up to nowadays, is pretty reach in its meaning. The significant element of this riches in the sphere of Romanian languages was preserved only by an Italian ingegno and Spanish ingenio. The innumerous derivatives of ingenium, available in French, were able to preserve only partial and more or less remote relations with its source, and the word esprit, often used as its equivalent, has pretty individual connotations. Etymology of the English wit and that of the German Witz is pretty different from ingenium and they very poorly reproduce that pretty significant constellation of meanings, which is expressed by the Latin word. This causes real difficulties to overcome by modern translators.

Author Biography

Alain Pons, Paris X Nanterre University

correspondent of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (France)

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2010-06-16

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Pons, A. (2010). Ingenium. Sententiae, 22(1), 183–189. https://doi.org/10.22240/sent22.01.183

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