genio – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
genio
nm.
genie, genius, gift, talent
genio
nm.
nature, temperament; genius
gênio (m)
n.
genius; genie, spirit; temper; daemon; ethos
Genio
(n.)
A man of a particular turn of mind.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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genio1
(n.) = genius ; genie [genies/genii, -pl.] ; savant.
Ex: The mass-market novelist who would probably be happier to be described as a good 'craftsman' or 'craftswoman' than as a literary 'genius'.
Ex: The article 'The genie is out of the bottle' considers the growth of local on-line information retrieval in parallel with conventional methods.
Ex: The subsequent debate, which engaged astrologers, doctors, theologians, & savants, reveals the tensions in French culture at the dawn of the Enlightenment.
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* genio en ciernes = budding genius.
* genio y figura hasta la sepultura = old habits die hard.
* idiota genio = idiot savant.
* necesitar ser un genio = call for + nothing less than genius.
* tonto genio = idiot savant.
genio2
(n.) = temper ; temperament.
Ex: A society without a literature has that much less chance of embodying within its temper and so within its organizations something of the fullness of human experience.
Ex: The temperaments of the two founders were such that lasting success was unlikely.
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* de mal genio = bad-tempered ; curmudgeonly ; crusty ; irascible ; shrewish ; short-tempered ; ill-natured ; stroppy ; in a strop ; quick-tempered ; shirty [shirtier -comp., shirtiest -sup.,] ; ill-tempered ; liverish.
* mal genio = bile ; short temper ; petulance.
* tener (muy) mal genio = have + a (very) short fuse.
