Adalberto
What is the plural of the word ''genius''?

Genii or geniuses?

25 de jun. de 2013 4:16
Comentarios · 2
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It depends. Most definitions of "genius" would be pluralized as "geniuses".

However, these alternate (and defunct) definitions would be pluralized as "genii":

1. A person who has great influence over others.

2. A "guardian spirit" in Roman Mythology that presides over a person or place.

3. An alternate spelling of "genie", the anglicanized version of "djinn", which is an evil/chaotic spirit in Arabic mythology.

As "genius" is almost never used for these contexts (because either the context itself is never brought up, as with 1 and 2, or because the alternative spelling is far more popular, as in 3), it's safe to always pluralize "genius" as "geniuses".

25 de junio de 2013
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There are too many geniuses in this room!

25 de junio de 2013