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单词 genii
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genius /jēˈnyəs or jēˈni-əs/

noun (pl geˈniuses or, in sense of spirit, genii /jēˈni-ī/)
  1. Consummate intellectual, creative, or other power, more exalted than talent
  2. A person endowed with this
  3. The special inborn faculty of any individual
  4. A special taste or natural disposition (obsolete)
  5. A good or evil spirit, supposed to preside over every person, place and thing, and esp to preside over a person's destiny from his or her birth
  6. A person who exerts a power, influence (whether good or bad) over another
  7. Prevailing spirit or tendency
  8. Type or generic exemplification
ORIGIN: L genius, from gignere, genitum to beget

jinn /jin/

plural noun (sing jinnee or jinni /jēnˈi or jin-ēˈ/)

A class of spirits in Muslim theology and folklore, assuming various shapes, sometimes as enormous monstrous men with supernatural powers (also djinn (sing djinni) or ginn (sing genie))

—The jinn are often called genii by a confusion and jinns sometimes occurs as a plural in non-standard use

ORIGIN: Ar jinn (pl), jinnī (sing)
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