ingenuo

From Latin ingenuus.

• IPA^(key): /inˈd͡ʒɛ.nu.o/, /inˈd͡ʒɛ.nwo/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛnuo, -ɛnwo
• Hyphenation: in‧gè‧nu‧o, in‧gè‧nuo

ingenuo (feminine ingenua, masculine plural ingenui, feminine plural ingenue)

1. naive, ingenuous, candid

ingenuo m (plural ingenui, feminine ingenua)

1. naif

• ingenuamente
• ingenuità

• Giunone, genuino, giunone, unigeno

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪŋˈɡɛ.nu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛː.nu.o]

ingenuō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ingenuus

Borrowed from Latin ingenuus (“frank”).

• IPA^(key): /inˈxenwo/ [ĩŋˈxe.nwo]

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• Rhymes: -enwo
• Syllabification: in‧ge‧nuo

ingenuo (feminine ingenua, masculine plural ingenuos, feminine plural ingenuas)

1. naive, ingenuous, candid, innocent

   Ella nunca lo sospechará porque es muy ingenua.

   She will never suspect it because she's very naive.

2. falsely naive, pretending to be naive

   ¡No seas ingenuo!

   Don't be naive!

ingenuo m (plural ingenuos, feminine ingenua, feminine plural ingenuas)

1. naif

   ¡Lo que pasa es que son un montón de ingenuos!

   The thing is they’re a bunch of naive people.

• “ingenuo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024