ingenui

English

Noun

ingenui pl (plural only)

1. (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

1. plural of ingenuo

Anagrams

• genuini, inguine, unigeni

Latin

Verb

ingenuī

1. 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