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Czech
Etymology
Derived from Latin genius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: gé‧nius
Noun
génius m anim
- genius (person)
Declension
Declension of génius (semisoft masculine animate foreign)
Further reading
- “génius”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “génius”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “génius”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
génius m anim (genitive singular génia, nominative plural géniovia, genitive plural géniov, declension pattern of chlap)
- genius (person)
Declension
Further reading
- “génius”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024