Noun: engenho
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | engenho |
| Plural m | engenhos |
Sample Sentences
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Resumem as centenas de paginas que outros escreveriam, diffusamente, gastando o engenho proprio e a paciencia alheia. (They summarize the hundreds of pages that others would write, diffusely, wasting their own ingenuity and their readers’ patience.) [1933 September 24, “A proposito de “Rabiscos”... [On the topic of “Rabiscos”...]”, in Jornal do Brasil, volume XLIV, number 227, Rio de Janeiro, page 17:]
Nouns inflected like engenho
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese engenho, from Latin ingenium. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
engenho', Latin Nouns '
ingenium'.
Verbs referencing "engenho"
English Nouns
engenho.
Translations