ingenui
English
Noun
ingenui pl (plural only)
- (law) In civil law, a class of freemen who were born free. They were distinguished from the class known as liberti or libertini who, born slaves, had afterwards legally obtained their freedom.
References
- Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
Italian
Noun
ingenui m
- plural of ingenuo
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
ingenuī
- first-person singular perfect active indicative of ingignō
References
- "ingenui", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “ingenui”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers