Ingeniôsus, pe. pro. Adiect. Cic.Wittie: hauing a good & pleasant witte.Quo quisque est solertior & ingeniosior, hocdocet iracÛdius & laboriosius. Ci. The more wise and witty that one is with more anger and paine be teacheth an other.Ad causas ingeniosa fuit.Ouid.Wittie to inuent excuses.Furrum ingeniosus ad omne.Ouid.Ager ingeniosus ad segetes. Oui. A sield very good to beare torne.Egestas ingeniosa. Clau. Inuentine pouertie.In alieno libro ingeniosus. Mart. In meas pœnas ingeniosus etam. Oui. I was wittie to further mine owne punishment.In suam culpam ingeniosus.Ouid.Res ingeniosa est.Ouid. Ingeniose gula. Mart. Ingeniosa miracula fecir natura, Plin.Vox mutandis ingeniosa sonis.Ouid.A very tunable voyce.Ingeniole. pe. pro. Aduerb. Cic.Wittily.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ingĕnĭōsus (ingĕnŭ-), a, um, adj. [ingenium], intellectual, superior in intellect, endowed with a good capacity, gifted with genius, of good natural talents or abilities, clever, ingenious.I.Lit.: Aristoteles quidem ait, omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse, Cic. Tusc. 1, 33, 80: ingeniosi vocantur, id. Fin. 5, 13, 36: vir ingeniosus et eruditus, id. Att. 14, 20, 3: quo quisque est solertior et ingeniosior, id. Rosc. Com. 11, 31: homo ingeniosissimus, id. Mur. 30, 62: ad aliquid, Ov. M. 11, 313: dandis ingeniosa notis, id. Am. 1, 11, 4: esse in aliqua re, Mart. praef. 1: in poenas, Ov. Tr. 2, 342: res est ingeniosa dare,
giving requires good sense
, id. Am. 1, 8, 62. —II.Transf., of inanimate things. A.Ingenious, clever: argumentum, Plin. 35, 10, 36, 69.—B.Adapted to, apt, fit for any thing: vox mutandis ingeniosa sonis, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 18: terra ingeniosa colenti, id. H. 6, 117: ad segetes ager, id. F. 4, 684.—Sup.: ingenuosissimus, Inscr. Murat. 1742, 15.— Adv.: ingĕnĭōsē, acutely, wittily, ingeniously: tractantur ista ingeniose, Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87: electas res collocare, id. Inv. 1, 6, 81: dicere, Quint. 1, 6, 36.— Comp., Plin. 15, 13, 12, 42.— Sup.: homo ingeniosissime nequam, Vell. 2, 48, 3.
