Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], a semi-learned term based on Latin ingeniōsus ‎(“endowed with good natural capacity, gifted with genius”), from ingenium ‎(“innate or natural quality, natural capacity, genius”), from in ‎(“in”) + gignere ‎(“to produce”), Old Latin genere. Old French [Term?] had engignos (1160) and engenious (early 13c.), also from Latin.