TALENT Copy link • TALENTA certain weight or sum of money, talentum. Ability, indoles: natura: ingenium: naturae habitus (natural, innate talent): virtus (acquired by effort and practice; opposed to ingenium): facultas, ingenii facultas (ability). Talents, ingenium; (of several), ingenia: indoles (sing.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) natura atque ingenium: (☞ ingenii dexteritas, or simply dexteritas, not = “cleverness, adroitness,” in general; but “tact, address,” skill in the art of pleasing). A man of talent, ingeniosus: a man of great talent, peringeniosus: oratorical talent, facultas dicendi: ingenium oratorium: virtus oratoria: a talent for writing, ingenium et virtus in scribendo: lo have but little talent, non maximi esse ingenii; for anything, ad alicujus rei intelligentiam minus instrumenti a natura habere: good talents, ingenii bonitas: magnae facultates ingenii: good natural talents, naturae bonitas: naturale quoddam bonum: to possess good talents, bona indole praeditum esse: ingenio valere or abundare: to possess great, remarkable talents, praestantissimo ingenio praeditum esse: excellentis ingenii magnitudine ornatum esse: to possess moderate talents, mediocri ingenio esse. TALENTED (in bad English; e.g., a talented man, for “a man of talents”), ingeniosus: peringeniosus: eximii ingenii: magno ingenio praeditus.