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Gignere. If you've never heard of that word, that's because it's Latin. The word was originally derived from ingenuous rather than ingenious, though it's come to be associated with the latter rather than the former (which itself originally meant something different than it does today). Both of those came into English more or less entire (with a couple of orthography changes) from Middle French and aren't derived from any simpler English root word.

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Q: What is the root word in ingenuity?
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