These are all latin-style words, there are much worse horrors in english importing them. One of my favorites is "ingenuity", used as being clever or inventive.

These are all latin-style words, there are much worse horrors in english importing them. One of my favorites is "ingenuity", used as being clever or inventive. It share the root with "ingenuidad" in spanish, which means "naive" (-ity endings correlate with -idad endings in spanish, the same way than -tion goes with -ción). The word that means clever or inventive is "ingenioso" which in english should be "ingenious" (-ious goes with -ioso, e.g. "precious" and "precioso"), so as a noun, it should be "ingeniousness". It confused me a lot when I was learning english.