English

ingenuine

From in- + genuine.

A compound of in- + genuine

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Latin genuīnus ‘innate’

English genuine

Today it means

adj false, not genuine or unauthentic.

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