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I doubt that's the origin, since "ingegno" means cleverness in italian…
by LtWorf 1y ago
I doubt that's the origin, since "ingegno" means cleverness in italian…
- School-Cotton 1y agoWell instead of doubting, you can just look it up on wiktionary.
- LtWorf 1y agoYou could have done it yourself but you chose to post disinformation instead.
- danans 1y agoI'm pretty sure the Italian word "ingegno" (like English "ingenious") comes from the same Latin root as "engine": ingenium, meaning "mind or intellect", with "engine" changing its pronunciation and meaning via medieval French.